Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes-who is one Washington bigwig businessmen can talk sense to-agreed on this point, told committeemen, "We must take every possible measure to stimulate the search for new oil reserves. . . . The price situation might well be reviewed...
Such men say openly now that Washington working morale is disintegrating, that a shake-up must come soon, that this is one thing that cannot be postponed until after elections. Some believe that vast reorganizations from top to bottom must be undertaken, that many a Washington bigwig must be fired from many a big job before the tide of battle can be turned...
Purp or no Purp, the weekly meeting of WPB's strategic Requirements Committee is a solemn but frequently fantastic scene: one admiral (Navy), one lieutenant colonel (Maritime Commission), one general, at least one bigwig apiece from State, BEW, Lend-Lease and WPB's Civilian Supply section meet to battle over the absolutely minimum material needs of each absolutely essential division...
...nothing happened as it was supposed to. It was the 90th anniversary of the signing of Argentina's articles of confederation, and Buenos Aires' Governor Rodolfo Moreno, who dearly loves a spectacle, had invited Acting President Ramón S. Castillo, all provincial governors and many another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Jurist Leopoldo Melo...
...deadly sweeps against the attackers, shooting up enemy supply trains and tearing some of them to shreds. The British were delighted beyond measure when they shot down a German reconnaissance plane and found in the wreck, alive and spattered with the blood of. his dead pilot, a Wehrmacht bigwig: General Ludwig Cruewell, Rommel's second in command and head of the forces attacking Tobruk...