Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Plant Corporation) is a war branch of Jesse Jones's RFC, with power to build, buy and sell plants, operate them if necessary; DSC (Defense Supplies Corporation), MRC (Metals Reserve Company), RRC (Rubber Reserve Company) are RFC subsidiaries, concerned with stocks of war materials...
...work of the Bureau will be the same as it has been since it was established last fall, specifically to help students find the branch of the armed forces for which their training or physical condition best fits them. An important addition, however, will be the extension of the Bureau's services to members of the Faculty and staff of the University...
...kind of private school is neither as private nor as expensive as boarding school. A pioneer country day school, New York City's Riverdale, celebrated its 35th anniversary last week, affording a good illustration of a branch of private education that is now blooming despite hard times...
...except for an occasional brush between soldiers and sailors, there has been no roughhousing at the Canteen. But in case there is, it has the advice of the Army morale branch as to what to do: "Play The Star-Spangled Banner. The boys in uniform must stand at attention or get thrown in the clink...
...staff goes off to school for four weeks; some officers to The Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth; some (artillery, signal corps, engineer, quartermaster and medical) to specialized branch schools...