Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offering the services of a combined filling station and roadside hot-dog stand, Chicago's new 1,500-car Drive-In is a gaudy affair. There are white-uniformed attendants to wash dirty windshields for a better view of the screen, and to check patrons' cars for oil, gas, water, air. There are also comely females in white satin slacks to peddle food, beverages, programs...
...together a practical sight for a 75-mm. gun from two lengths of iron pipe (cost: $1), two 15? mirrors, 10? worth of adhesive tape. In casual tests during maneuvers in Tennessee, a gun with their sight got more hits than one with a complicated, expensive, and unsatisfactory affair which the Army had adapted to anti-tank use. General Staff officers and high-ranking artillerymen promptly beat a path to the doors of Yancey & Bean, decided their gadget was worth looking into...
This important news first became known not in Washington, but in Rio de Janeiro. It was not even acknowledged as a U.S. affair by the U.S. State Department, or by the U.S. Export Control Administration, where a staff of 350 has long been mapping a preclusive buying campaign under Brigadier General Russell L. Maxwell. No American claimed credit. But it represented some smooth, discreet work on the part of the State Department, RFC, and the No. 1 needler for economic warfare, Leon Henderson...
...Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest of the country, those of the Pacific Coast in particular...
Command. On July 7 this sputtering, sprawling War in China will be four years old. Four years of war have hurt China a lot, but have also taught China a lot. The most spectacular discovery, for a nation in which military leadership has classically been an affair of coin and cunning rather than martial skill, has been that China could turn out first-class officer talent...