Word: branded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms, NYA girls in blue and white dresses, a Negro WPA company, whose straggling ranks and struggling salutes to the President gave watchers their only laugh in the grim military parade...
Four days later, "K. T." and a few technicians were at Rock Island Arsenal looking over a medium tank (one of about 200 now on hand, mostly out of date). Day after, he was back in Detroit with 186 pounds of blueprints of an improved 25-tonner and a brand-new production problem. To work on the blueprints went 197 Chryslermen, led by Staff Master Mechanic Edward J. Hunt. Their first job: to go through the blueprints, get out a production line and a tool list, calculate production processes and finally lay out the building where the 25-tonners would...
...change in voting strength in the Senate was small. There were five more Republican Senators than there had been a year ago-28 in all. There were eleven brand-new Senators. Youngest: Nevada's handsome Berkeley Bunker, 34. Conspicuously missing was more than one doughty lawmaker: Ashurst, Burke, Minton, Holt...
...Force, made photographic reconnaissance flights over the German lines. Once he was almost shot down by the Nazis, barely got his plane back safely. After France fell, Saint Exupery was decorated. Last week he landed in Manhattan from the steamer Siboney out of Lisbon. In his suitcase was a brand-new manuscript...
...carved desk. Bald, 60-year-old Brigadier General George Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...