Word: abreast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
...stay abreast of the times,, the Colorado state legislature defined grand larceny as the theft of anything worth $50 or more. The old limit...
...industry grew fast, but Love's company grew faster. He kept buying small new plants (he now has 81), thus kept abreast of the industry's improvements without too big an outlay. Rayon's recent rate of growth has far exceeded both wool and cotton. Since 1940 the rayon industry has grown 238%, Burlington's sales have risen...
...readers, and Sport, therefore, has to give the news, satisfy the experts among TIME'S readers, and be clearly understandable to the uninitiated, as well. That is not an easy assignment, and Smith spends considerable time out of the office (e.g., the 1948 Olympic Games in London) keeping abreast of a dozen sports, getting the color, the background, and the "inside" details, that are vital to a successful TIME Sport story...
...most vicious atrocities committed by Germans in combat during the war. By the testimony of one survivor (who escaped by feigning death after he was shot in the foot), some 160 U.S. soldiers were lined up in a snow-covered field, eight deep and 20 abreast, and raked by machine-gun fire for three minutes...