Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Jim Forrestal went before the Senate committee and began his counterbattery fire. Conceding that unified command in the field was essential for operating efficiency, he still would not admit that the principle was valid in Washington. He feared that the proposed "departmental colossus" would be militarily unsound, and too much for one man to administer...
...your own caption on the cover, "One World or no World?" It is so, and whispering campaigns or press pinpricks may at length turn out to be dangerous. The Russians didn't do very much to create confidence; that seems not to be in their line, and some admit it, adding that other countries' openness was punished by fifth columns...
...single steering-wheel, takes over the work of all three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the rudder would normally be. The front wheels are steerable, as in an automobile. The plane's sponsors, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., admit that the loose-jointed wing is still in the experimental stage. But they hope that the perfected version will make light airplanes as easy to manage as motorboats or automobiles. Its designer, George Spratt, flies it with ease, but says he cannot fly a conventional, fixed-wing plane...
...solemnly: "The Globester took off for Tripoli at 12:30 a.m." Funnyman Fred Othman was only slightly funny for the U.P.: "Hand me down my white burnoose, light the incense and call the dancing girls." I.N.S. sent Inez Robb, Hearst's glib, grey go-girl, who had to admit there wasn't much to write about: "We are well on the way to establishing the alltime record of circumnavigating the globe without seeing anything...
First Choice. One of Harrison's main objects had been to discover possible places of settlement for Jews. His finding: Palestine is "definitely and preeminently" the first choice. His recommendation: admit Jewish D.P.s to Palestine without delay...