Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 1, published a brief story about a letter from a New Jersey woman to Senator W. Warren Barbour, upbraiding him for obtaining an X card for unlimited gasoline, to which the Senator replied by wire: APPRECIATE THOUGHTS GAS RATIONING. SOLUTION DUE SHORTLY TRANSPORTATION PIPE LINES. The Senator followed up his wire with a letter of explanation . . . part of which follows.—ED...
There were plenty of good men in the Army's top administrative jobs when General Somervell took hold, and he knew who most of them were. There were a few brief days of reshuffling, transfers, new appointments. Then Somervell called the first meeting of his staff...
...hours last week U.S. truckmen were given a brief glimpse of heaven. To speed war transportation, the Governors of all 48 States promised Jesse Jones they would accept a uniform national code of trucking regulations and would set up nationwide reciprocity on licenses...
Posts in the Harvard A.R.P. organization are also open, and Freshmen are especially needed for these jobs, so that replacements can be made less frequently. Brief training courses are given for wardens, first aiders, auxiliary firemen and policemen and other workers...
...brief, vacationers can travel if they can get accommodations...