Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...branch of the U.S. Army has a better combat record in World War II than the field artillery. It was good in World War I -when more than half all casualties (70% of American) were from artillery fire. In World War II it uses new, time-fire shells far more accurate than shrapnel and six times as destructive against personnel as regular shells which explode on the ground. It masses fire at speeds inconceivable 25 years ago. In seconds it can destroy targets that once took minutes, sometimes hours...
First Star. Allen knew his Army. He returned to the cavalry. That service had many advantages: it was ideal for a practicing poloist, it was socially remunerative and it was a branch from which officers frequently moved to the top in other branches and in the Army at large...
While the shouting died, the mystery remained (the seventh-place Phillies under Harris-his first year-had already won 39 games, had won only 42 all last year). Sour rumor said that Brooklyn's Branch Rickey was really running Philadelphia's Bill Cox, that Rickey was lining up Bucky Harris against a day when Rickey could get rid of Brooklyn's noisy manager Leo Durocher...
...sleeve, became a regular soldier and a tankman. Over two decades he built up a quiet reputation as an engine expert, an intrepid tester of tanks. When the Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion to a captaincy, with more rank on the way. Colonel Krim's present assignment: secret tests of tanks...
...retired, dammit," says leonine old Amadeo Peter Giannini, chairman of the board of California's huge Bank of America, whenever reporters note that he still bosses his 478-branch colossus.-But 73-year-old A. P. still goes to work in his walnut-paneled San Francisco office every day; he has been "retiring" ever since he was 31, when he decided that he had earned enough in his stepfather's fruit and vegetable business to take life easy. Actually no one believes his beloved bank will be run by anyone else so long as A. P. can draw...