Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Package from Texas. The Army's Chief of Staff, General Omar Bradley, tried to disabuse them on that score. The question of U.M.T., he said, bore no relation to the fight over air groups. The U.M.T. decision lay between a modest-size standing army of 932,000 men supplemented by a U.M.T.-fed National Guard-or a much bigger Army than anyone wanted to contemplate. He estimated that without U.M.T., for "the barest type of security," the Army would have to be raised to at least...
...midtown Manhattan last week, 15 pickets walked round & round before the building that houses the New Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April...
Robbed: Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough of Baltimore. Out of his house vanished some $1,250 worth of silverware which had belonged to the late James Cardinal Gibbons and bore the Cardinal's coat of arms and initials. Presently police found the swag in a bushel basket in a church, and a chauffeur pleaded guilty...
...quiet announcement from the National Military Establishment Munitions Board last week gave U.S. industry a minor shock. Said Board Chairman*Thomas J. Hargrave, president of Eastman Kodak Co.: the first steps toward industrial mobilization of U.S. plants for war have been taken. The new program bore the jawbreaking name of "Allocation of Private Industrial Capacity for Procurement Planning of the Armed Services"-or APICPPAS, for short...
...sort of way, it is fun. Much of the laborious cuteness, questionable bit by bit, is so wildly preposterous that the total effect is cheerfully insane-a little as if it were possible to have a happy, harmless case of the d.t.s. The movie will undoubtedly bore some people, disgust some and delight others; but on its novelty value alone, it may make a lot of money. The mere thought of the human and subhuman labor and patience behind the entire effort appalls the imagination, let alone the intelligence...