Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighting Seabees" is another war picture and as a description of an important new branch of the Navy it is not as good as it should be. The interesting story of the formation of the Navy's construction battalion has been subordinated to the long threadbare entertainment formula which stresses plenty of battle scenes...
...attitude, and the complete lack of an American attitude, the Czechoslovak Government in Exile, unanimously backing the Soviet-Czech pact, was last week readying itself to enter Czechoslovakia in the footsteps of the Red Army and two affiliated Czechoslovak brigades. The Czechoslovak Communists, with headquarters in Moscow and a branch office in London, seemed to have a good chance of entering the Government...
...Branch Out. He spread to small Blairsville (pop. 5,002), bought up the only industry in town-it was shut down -got the Navy to equip the plant, and began to turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy...
...knew the use of every armed branch; he knew that teamwork produced victory. The teammates were all his intimate friends-young Novikov, now Chief Marshal of Aviation, Zhukov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
COLONEL FRANCIS T. SPAULDING Colonel, A.U.S. Army Education Branch...