Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army has grown 548% since 1936, but one branch of it, the Engineers-which last week stood a review on the shadeless, red-dusty parade ground of Fort Belvoir, Va., 15 miles south of Washington on the bank of the Potomac-has grown...
Best-educated and most versatile branch of the Army is the Corps of Engineers. Officered by scholastic top-rankers from West Point and by graduates of such crack schools as M.I.T., Purdue and Caltech, the Engineers like to brag that they can do anything. In peacetime they build dams and -levees for power and flood control, think nothing of odd jobs like filling top-flight posts in WPA, the Civil Aeronautics Administration. In wartime they do a thousand jobs behind the lines, pave the way for infantry and tanks up front, often use shooting irons as well as shovels. Rednecked...
Isadore N. Rosenberg 1M, Boston; Christopher T. Bever 1M, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Irving M. London 2M, Malden; George S. Kurland 1M, Dorchester; Richard C. Webster Jr. 2M, Glen Arm, Md.; Don W. Fawcett 3M, West Branch, Ia; and James B. Tobias '41, Fremont...
...week in Washington the American Medical Association, which has long been fighting group health schemes, got a stiff left jab to the solar plexus; the arm behind the punch was the Federal Government's. After legal proceedings lasting two and a half years, the Association, and its Washington branch, were convicted by a Federal District Court of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...original Government suit was also filed against Drs. Morris Fishbein, editor of the A.M.A. Journal, Manager Olin West, a number of other executives. After deliberating twelve hours, the jury acquitted the doctors, but convicted the A.M.A. and its Washington branch. At week's end, sentence had not yet been imposed on the organizations; they face a maximum fine of $5,000 each. Editor Fishbein and Manager West, who plan to carry the case to a court of appeals, made no comment on the verdict, said merely that the A.M.A. "will continue to do its utmost for ... public health...