Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vichy's catlike Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan angrily considered a letter from 62-year-old General Count Benoît Léon de Fornel de la Laurencie. A brave fighter in France's brief World War II defense, the General was among the few French commanders at Dunkirk. There he bucked up his exhausted troops by holding a review. Said Gringoire: "When they passed in front of their chief, they turned their hardened, sunburned faces toward him, in an immense téte-à-téte. All of their expressions were...
...eight and a half years they have given him loyalty and admiration interrupted by only a few brief peeves. Long ago most of their editors and publishers began to feel that the President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
...Rothschild would be auctioned for the national relief fund. ....The widow of Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge ordered the $3,000,000, 110-room, untenanted Dodge castle in suburban Detroit torn down so that the land could be sold....Sculptor Heinz Warneke's two 31-ton stone eagles, brief ornaments of Washington's Social Security Building till popular taste revolted, were sold by the Government for $25. A local auto salesman who bought them figures the stone is worth...
...past year; that prices paid by farmers (for equipment, clothes, etc.) also were 131% of the base years, 7% over a year ago. Thus the relationship between farm income and farm outgo is the same as in the fat pre-war years. Except for a brief spell in 1937, this magic balance had not been achieved since...
...south the British crossed from Iraq and made sure of the richest single oil field in existence; their warships in the Persian Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...