Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since 1942 Johnston has run his four businesses and 1,700 employes mainly by long-distance telephone from Washington or wherever. From his walnut-paneled, richly furnished office in the banklike Chamber of Commerce building a block from the White House, he not only runs the Chamber but also serves as member of the Economic Stabilization Board, the State Department's Economic Policy Committee and the Management-Labor advisory committees of WPB and WMC. A vigorous but discriminating critic, he remains on good personal terms with most New Dealers and labor leaders. Mrs. Johnston, a boyhood sweetheart, spends about...
...Tenth Air Force planes. They slept on the ground, each man under two blankets and a poncho, pestered by continuous rains and leeches. Last week they were repaid for all their discomforts, all their meticulous training: the stunned Japs were completely surprised to find U.S. troops throwing a road block across their only supply line in the Hukawng Valley...
Trini Barnes is the daughter of the late G.O.P. Senator Medill McCormick and former G.O.P. Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms.* From her father Mrs. Barnes inherited a block of Tribune stock, packaged in a clause that it could not be sold outside the family. She sold most of it to the Colonel eight years ago for $3 million...
...major, on a typical two-block walk in London, where Army foot traffic is heavy, found he had returned salutes 212 times. Next noon he made the distance with his arm simply frozen at the proper angle...
Some thought that there might be another spur to London's rapprochement with Algiers: a traditional, power-political desire to prepare a counterbloc in western Europe, just in case Russia establishes a rival block in the east (see p. 11). London dispatches reported that Britain and the U.S. will soon sign agreements providing for administration of liberated Norwegian, Netherlands and Belgian territories by their Governments in Exile...