Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies seemed to be taking a warlike census of historic Italian cities. Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army swept northward from Bologna, spanned the Po's yellow waters and raced for the mountains. They bypassed Mantua, Virgil's homeland Verona, the town of Romeo and Juliet. Milan, Italy's No. 1 industrial city, was occupied; so was Turin...
...Blue. Over Germany, the crew of a crippled Liberator bomber bailed out. The pilot, Lieut. Virgil Trombly, landed in a tree, was soon greeted by a U.S. infantryman, his neighbor and high school classmate at Chazy, N.Y., Henry Dickinson. Copilot Lieut. Frank Gorman hit ground safely, immediately spied his neighbor and classmate at Shaker Heights, Ohio, Lieut. David Wick...
...Virgil and the Colonels. Kweilin, with nearby Liuchow, forms the hub of southeast China's highways and railroads. Refugees were rushing in like animals before a forest fire. The 16 Americans among the thousands of fleeing Chinese went methodically to work mining road junctions, digging cavities under bridges, under abutments in the sides of denies...
They worked in teams of two or three. One team consisted of Sergeant Graham Johnston, ex-jockey from New Canaan, Conn., Sergeant Paul Todd, of Kalamazoo, and a Chinese boy interpreter called "Virgil." When the sergeants found it difficult to get cooperation they promoted themselves to colonels. Chinese soldiers willingly helped the "colonels." Chinese civilians, impressed by their rank, gave them special food and baths...
...typical mung grower is Victor Virgil Beard, 31, of Waukomis, who came home after 16 months in the Army. He had been discharged as an essential farmer. Early this summer Beard cut 2,500 bu. of wheat off 100 of his 600 acres of rich flat farmland. As soon as the wheat was in, Beard planted the 100 acres of wheatland to mungs, this fall harvested 17,400 Ibs. of beans. The wheat grossed Beard $3,575, the mungs $3,132-and Beard still has 1,250 Ibs. of beans for seeds...