Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle was over the Vice Presidential nomination. Almost all of the most powerful New Dealers were involved, because they think: 1) the next Vice President may very possibly become President*; and 2) Henry Wallace is no vote-catching asset to the party...
...shocked Nazi silence, the reverberations echoed for days. Then Hitler apparently decided that for the prestige of German Kultur the Reich's chief cultural asset should have his sulky way. The incident was hushed up. Strauss was allowed both his privacy and his birthday parties, his only punishment being the refusal of a passport to Zurich, where he planned to conduct a gala performance of his opera Elektra...
...night view" of what postwar manufacturing plants may look like from the air. Designed by the H. K. Ferguson Co., industrial engineers and builders, of Cleveland and New York, the plan is the result of a year's research. The aim: to make the factory a community asset by hiding machinery connections, replacing boiler houses with cleaner, more sightly power sources, etc., and to give the employes ideal working conditions. For management, designers stress the value of the "air view," in that an attractive plant is a potential sales story for plane travelers...
...team -Army, Navy and Air - swung along the north coast of New Guinea, pounced on Biak, a large island only 300 miles from New Guinea's western tip. Once taken - a job at which the task force was bloodily busy this week - Biak would be a real strategic asset to the U.S. in its drive into Japan's inner defenses...
...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...