Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government personnel by at least 6% simply by not filling vacancies that occurred through death and resignations. In addition he would throw out some drones. Said Douglas sternly in a distinctly un-New Dealish voice: "Getting rid of these people would actually raise the output because it would create better morale and a greater will to work in the remainder of the personnel...
...McCarran this artful dodge seemed just another way of keeping Franco in the doghouse. He was convinced that Franco had never been as black as he had been painted, anyhow. "How can we do better than to make an ally of a country which has carried the war against communism for the past quarter of a century?" he asked. Besides, suggested McCarran, getting down to business, the U.S. might be able to sell Spain some surplus cotton...
...Army & Navy, Johnson decided, had pussyfooted; he ordered the admirals and generals to give him "additional clarifying information" about their programs. The Air Force came off better. As a first step, the Air Force said that within ten days it would begin disbanding its all-Negro 332 Fighter Wing at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Ohio. By the end of the year its 2,000 men would be sprinkled through the Air Force; other Negro units in the Air Force, but not all of them, would be broken up in the same...
...Negroes, but it was a strange sort of integration: 10,500 of them were steward's mates in mess halls, and only five were officers. In the Marine Corps there are about 1,500 Negroes, none of them officers. The Army has given its 71,189 Negroes better assignments, more chances for promotion (there are 1,267 Negro Army officers), but all along the line Negroes and whites have been generally segregated...
...building, fought off Milletti and got away. At the hospital, Willie's wife, Beatrice, sat beside him until, around midnight, he was ready for the operating room. Then Willie managed a thin grin and said: "Why don't you put some lipstick on and quit crying? You better go home and take care of your kids." Four hours later he was dead...