Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the men around the table were flabbergasted and appalled. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall went back to his office, called Forrestal four hours later and gasped: "My God, Jim, do you know what that means? That is virtually a declaration...
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
...only a little more than $2,000,000 in military supplies has trickled into Chiang Kai-shek's military depots. From May to October, Chinese procurement agents trotted fruitlessly around Washington. There was haggling over prices. Chiang Kai-shek sent a personal appeal to President Truman to hurry things up. But not until last week did the Chinese finally get some definite answers. Forty percent of the top priority items on their shopping lists, they were told, would be shipped from West Coast ports in early December; 60% would be ready to ship in January...
Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
...department. "Mostly I work on the railroad. Four of us shovel her clear in winter, and clear out any drift that comes down in summer. I get plenty of time to go fishin'. We don't have any officials, you might say. Depending on who's around, the depot master is mayor...