Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schools the country over. The purpose of Background for Peace is exactly the same as the purpose of Background for War-to give our subscribers a living understanding of the great new problems and questions Americans may soon be called upon to face. Now as always TIME'S aim is to inform rather than to make recommendations-to-give you the factual and ideological background you need to make up your own minds intelligently...
...learned to venerate the old-line, wind-beaten, open-cockpit veteran of the Air Corps. They told each other the story of the night he stood on a London rooftop observing a German air raid. The Nazis' aim was wild, the bombs fell helter-skelter. Spaatz began to fume and curse, suddenly roared: "The damn fools are setting air power back 20 years...
Eden acted very creditably in his dispute with Chamberlain, which ended is his resignation and gained the admiration of many for his outspokenness. A common view for England and America towards postwar settlement is probably the primary aim of his recent trip...
...Major General Clarence S. Ridley is adviser to the Persian Army. Basically his aim is to win over the army from German methods. Most of the general staff and the high-capped, swashbuckling officers have been pro-German. The soldiers themselves, garbed in tight faded khaki uniforms, are undernourished, underpaid. General Ridley is trying to put through an equitable pay system and improve organization...
...aim is to present the right news to the public in the most efficient way and in the shortest possible time. To do this requires a system. . . . Correspondents are kept up to date and informed of the general military situation. . . . Before a big offensive I see that the press is ready and collected and are at the right places at the right time. In other words, we shall see they get front-row seats in the stalls when the curtain goes...