Word: airings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago Theater of the Air (Sat. 10 p.m., Mutual). The Mikado...
...Spike" Blandy, unlike Ofstie, thought that strategic bombing had had "a marked effect" on Germany's production and mo rale, and conceded that "some" of the Air Force's 6-363 would probably get through and hit their targets. But, he added, "the probable results do not appear to me to be sufficiently promising to justify eliminating any essential forces from other services...
...Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...Impossible." Murray, deep in trouble, learned about Lewis' offer from newsmen and reacted to it with the air of a man who will believe it when he sees the color of Lewis' money. Aware of Lewis' insinuation that the Steelworkers could not fend for themselves, he said: "The United Steelworkers of America and [the C.I.O] stand prepared ... to pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such...
...foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...