Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio Flensburg capped its performance with an astounding broadcast in the name of Field Marshal Ernst Busch, one of several German officers designated to assist in the Wehrmacht's dissolution...
...professors' toughest current problems is weather. Because Superfortress folk could get no weather reports from Siberia, where Japanese weather makes up, highflying B-29s had to be sent dangerously far up the Chinese coast and into the interior on weather-charting trips. To assist in this risky business, Dr. Helmut E. Landsberg, University of Chicago meteorologist, assigned experts to develop radio-sondes, dropped by parachute, to pick up vital ground-level weather data. When perfected, they will considerably bolster predictions of Air Force forecasters in the Marianas...
Paepcke's Packages. Chief credit for Container's collection went to its sleek president, Walter Paul Paepcke (pronounced Pep-key), 48. Handsome, greying Elizabeth ("Pussy") Paepcke, his wife, rated an assist; an amateur painter and enthusiastic collector (of Picasso, Leger, Degas), she got her sales-minded husband interested in art. By 1937, he was so thoroughly sold that he not only had Container's products designed in streamlined shapes, but decided to advertise them-something unheard of in the paperboard industry...
Fellowships of the Guggenheim Foundation, which was established in 1925 by Senator Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to his son, John, are awarded to scholars and creative workers in the arts to assist them in their work of research and artistic creation...
Words, Words, Words. Michigan's burly Hook flushed, seemed to be trying to keep hold of himself. Said he: "And we hope to hold them down. And if the gentleman from Mississippi will quit his raving and ranting and get down and at least assist the good citizens of the C.I.O., he would probably be doing a service to this country...