Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made some big decisions-or what seemed to be decisions at the time. He decided to adopt Reese Taylor's centralized plan to allocate steel-and to apply it to other raw materials as well. He issued orders taking away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field agents all over the country now have over priorities -a big factor in today's hopeless confusion. He insisted he would not back down, because of Army & Navy opposition, on his promise that Henry Kaiser could go ahead with cargo plane construction...
...lanky American asked the class of British schoolboys: "Suppose you were sitting on the bank of the Mississippi River looking east. How far away would the Atlantic Ocean be?" Blank looks. Many of them had never heard of the Mississippi River. Said a boy who had: "100 miles." Another: "500 miles...
...shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also knocked over blank walls. He won permission for field ordnance officers to award orders up to $500.000 without approval from Washington, finally got the figure to $5,000,000, now has cut by two-thirds the time it took the Army to sign contracts. He was pounding his desk over Army waste of strategic...
...fired at point-blank range. It was just a slugging match. The rear bomber pulled up over my tracers and fell away smoking. I kicked in behind the second plane. He jettisoned his bombs, but I set him afire. I kicked my ship after the leader. He plowed right on to the field, dropped his bombs. There I caught up and gave him a burst. He just fell to pieces...
Fill out your application blank at University R, and get the other papers that you need there. Then make an appointment at 13 Holyoke Street for a Grant Study. Then seek no more interviews until you have been notified to report for a physical examination. The physical examination will be scheduled by the Enlisting Officer in Wadsworth House...