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-ENTER ATOMIC ENERGY AND A NEW ERA IN WORLD HISTORY
45-JAPAN SURRENDERS
Decade’s Top Stories Chosen
'46-U.N. STARTS WORKING
'47-DISASTER STRIKES AT TEXAS CITY '48-FELLED BY ASSASSIN, GANDHI IS CREMATED
In each of the last turbulent years before Korea Asso
ciated Press newspaper editors and AP editors have chosen
what they considered the 10 best stories of the year. Here
are the selections:
1910
1. German invasion of Norway, the Low Countries and France.
2. Renomination and election of Roosevelt for a third term.
3. National defense program, climaxed by peacetime drafts.
4. Battle of Britain.
5. Evacuation of Dunkerque.
6. Trade of U.S. destroyers for British naval bases.
7. Greco-Italian war.
8. Russo-Finnish war.
9. Axis-Japanese pact for re-distribution of world’s wealth.
10. The Act of Havana, providing for common hemisphere defense.
1941
1. Japan attacks while talking peace.
2. Reuben James sunk; it’s a world war.
3. Germany turns on Russia, meets first reverses.
4.. Lend-lease billions flow to England, Russia.
5. 220 billions earmarked for defense.
6. Roosevelt and Churchill draft the Atlantic Charter.
7. Six major battleships go to the bottom.
8. Rudolph Hess parachutes “to save humanity.”
9. Army breaks up defense plant strikes.
10. Brooklyn Dodgers win the pennant.
1942
1. A “Second Front” is opened in North Africa.
2. America takes offensive in Pacific.
3. Russia holds and counter-attacks.
4. Japan carves out an empire.
5. Two-party government strengthened in U.S.
6. Tokyo is bombed.
7. America goes on wartime economy.
8. Saboteurs executed (Aug. 8).
9. Eddie Rickenbacker rescued (Nov. 14).
10. Dieppe is raided by Commandos.
1943
1. Drafting of an Allied overall blueprint for winning the war
and keeping the peace.
2. Russia turns the tide in an almost 12-months offensive.
3. Allied bombers invade Germany through the roof.
4. Italy surrenders and wars on Germany.
5. The United States starts on the road back in the Pacific from
Guadalcanal to the Gilberts.
6. Mussolini topples.
7. Pay-as-you-go taxes.
8. Sir Harry Oaks murder case. ...
9. Coal strikes imperil war production.
10. U-boats lose battle of the Atlantic.
1944
1. Normandy Invasion and Battle of France.
2. Reelection of Roosevelt.
3. Philippine Invasion.
4. B-29 bombings of Japan.
5. Hitler assassination attempt.
6. German V-l, V-2 weapons.
7. Hartford circus fire.
8. Russian drive on Germany.
9. Death of Wendell Willkie.
10. Balkan crackup.
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1945
The atomic bomb.
Surrender of Japan.
Collapse of Hitler and Germany.
Death of President Roosevelt.
Labor unrest sweeps the nation.
The United Nations gets going.
Churchill’s defeat and the leftward swing of Britain.
Congress probe of Pearl Harbor.
The trial of war criminals,
Postwar upheavals in Europe, Asia and the Pacific.
1946
Republican election landslide.
John L. Lewis and the coal strike.
OPA decontrols.
The Nuernberg “war crimes” verdicts and executions.
Atom bomb experiments.
Slaying of Suzanne Degnan and apprehension of William
Heirens.
Uncle Sam gets tough in foreign relations.
National Railroad strike.
Hotel fires throughout nation, including Winecoff Hotel disaster
in Atlanta and LaSalle Hotel fire in Chicago. .
St. Louis Cardinals win. thrilling pennant, World. Series cam
paigns.
1947
Cost of living.
The U.S.-Russian split.
The Taft-Hartley Law.
The Texas City explosion.
U.S. aid to Europe.
War contracts investigation.
India’s Freedom.
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
Troubles in Palestine.
The Florida-Gulf coast hurricane.
1948
Election of Harry S. Truman as President.
The “Battle of Berlin.”
Birth of Israel.
Assassination of- Mahatma Gandhi.
The Marshall plan.
Cost of living and inflation.
Communist surge in China.
Mrs. Kasenkiha’s leap to freedom from Russian consulate.
Death of Babe Ruth.
Communist investigations in U.S.
1949
Report Russia has atomic energy.
The Atlantic treaty.
Berlin blockade ends.
Navy disputes with Air Forces.
Trial of top U.S. Communists.
The Noi-onic fire.
Kathy Fiscus dies in old well.
Mindszenty case and new Red pressure on church.
Communist forces win in China.
Steel workers win pensions in strike.
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Air Force Adds
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Two men, Major Ralph Lamond
Jr., and Master Sergeant Harvey
O. Jones, have been added to the
staff of the Air ROTC detach
ment.
Major Lamond was assigned here
from Gunter Air Force base, Ala
bama. He will instruct in commu
nications and electronics, of the
new specialties to be taught in air
science here.
Major Nmd Mrs. Lamond and
their daughter Bonita and son
Gregory, live at 510 Gilchrist, Col
lege Station.
Sergeant and Mrs. Jones and son
Kenneth Dale live at 2303 Bomber
Drive, Bryan.
Major Lamond entered the air
force in April, 1941, after grad
uation from Wabash college, In
diana. He served as Group and
Wing Communications officer in
the Southwest Pacific from 1943 to
1945. He returned to civilian sta
tus in 1945, and worked as dial
telephone engineer with Western
Electric until 1948, when he ire-en
tered the air force and was assign
ed to Gunter field. He served as
an umpire in the Portrex exercise
in the Puerto Rico area in 1950.
Sergeant Jones entered military
service in 1941. He served with
the field artillery in the 36th In
fantry division, then was trans
ferred to a tank destroyer battal
ion as platoon sergeant and first
sergeant for four years.
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