Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
Except for one brief excursion to chastise Congress for failing to pass his $25-3-week unemployment compensation and full employment bills, the President's speech followed a straight and simple line. Said...
...once economy-minded Harry Byrd's shears might prove effective-though not nearly so drastically as he hoped. A study in the Labor Department's Monthly Labor Review last February conceded that war's end would be followed by "a brief period in which curtailment of federal activity will cause total Government employment and payrolls to fall substantially." But after this period, the study solemnly predicted, "the general upward trend in public employment and payrolls . . . may be expected to reappear...
Maintenance workers walked out of American Airlines hangars, set up picket lines, had a brief clash with police, soon were joined by sympathy strikers in the American Airlines shops in Chicago and Detroit. For a full day American Airlines had to abandon its 24 flights in & out of Chicago and 22 other flights in & out of Detroit...
...evidence, was freed, disappeared after pinning the murder on Fulker. Michael Fulker was found mentally unbalanced, was finally locked up in the mental wing of Bordeaux Jail. There for 20 years he was a model inmate, worked as a guard's helper. Only once did he get a brief glimpse of Montreal, when a friendly guard let him peep through a telescope...