Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After more than 40 years service with the U.S. Marines I am a firm believer that no task is too great for that branch of our armed forces...
Commenting on the success of the Quakers in keeping their supplies out of German hands, Jones pointed out that these men in branch offices are able to be present at the distribution of material and see that it gets into the proper hands. "No item of our food has been taken" he said...
...public esteem into which Congress has fallen has worried many a thoughtful legislator-and not just for personal political reasons. With a branch of the U.S. Government under attack, it is high time for Congressmen to brace up - not to save their own hides but to preserve the principle of democratic legislation One such worried Congressman is 40-year-old Aimer Stillwell Mike Monroney...
...historians depending upon the special field studied. For honors candidates, the end of the Junior year presents a four hour qualifying exam. Once a student has waded his way through these trials, the first two of which are nothing more than chores, he writes a thesis on a special branch in the field and takes an examination on the material covered by the thesis at the end of the Senior year...
...enforce such orders, WPB's Compliance Section and Requisitioning Branch got tougher too. Compliance accused Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners) of misusing some 350,000 lb. of secondary aluminum, forbade it to touch any aluminum for three months. Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve. Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building...