Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the appointment of Sir Charles Portal was important and interesting. The two most likely candidates to succeed Sir Cyril were Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding, head of the fighter command, man most responsible for the R. A. F.'s brilliant defenses against the Luftwaffe. That the R. A. F. chose the expert in offense rather than defense indicated that Britain's self-esteem had taken a great rise...
...Chamberlain's historic role was at hand in a new little book called Guilty Men, an on-the-record, non-editorialized indictment of Chamberlain and 14 of his pre-and post-Munich peers (TIME, Sept. 30). Author was "Cato," identified by wiseacres as the Evening Standard's brilliant newsman Michael Foote...
After the scars of World War I had been harrowed from the battlefields of Europe, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg paid his respects to U. S. industry's part in Germany's defeat: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it." Of the War Industries Board which put U. S. industry to work, the old warrior gravely observed: "They understood...
Whether Defense Commissioner Knudsen understood war or not, he understood a big job. And it was a colossal job he had on his hands. The tools and skills of the "brilliant, if pitiless," U. S. war industry had all but disappeared. The War Department had an M-Day plan (which the Nazis had borrowed) for mobilizing industry, but M-Day had not arrived-the U. S. was arming for defense, not war. So Bill Knudsen and his six fellow commissioners had to build a strange, specialized plane-ship-&-munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which...
Aristocrat turned Socialist, Federico Pinedo, Finance Minister in the new Argentine Cabinet, combines progressive economic views with smart financial moves. When he was Finance Minister once before (1933), Pinedo created the Central Bank and the present Foreign Exchange Control, topped off these with a brilliant maneuver: he alchemized a British loan from credit figures on the books of British banks into actual gold metal, shipped the metal to Argentina, turned it into pesos and marked up a profit of millions of pesos in the national treasury...