Word: broadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad valleys, high among the peaks, where once strode conquistadors in clanking metal, in the rugged mountain haunts once occupied by bewhiskered revolutionaries, the rumble of a new war was heard. It was being fought by men and machines on continents separated from Mexico by thousands of miles of blue water, in places where Mexicans had never fought. But Mexico, like the U.S. in 1917, rose to meet a challenge to her right to use the seas; the 28th nation to declare its enmity to the Axis, she voted war against Germany, Italy and Japan. Now the whole of North...
...Ewell, for the third year in a row, won the 100-yd. dash, 220-yd. dash and broad jump bringing his accumulation of Intercollegiate titles (indoors and out) to an even dozen, a feat no other track star has ever accomplished...
Last winter, after Pearl Harbor, the old Senator saw his chance. Lilienthal had decided to build Douglas Dam, on the French Broad River near Knoxville, to get another 100,000 kw. of power for aluminum expansion in a hurry. When McKellar saw that the land that would be flooded was 12,000 acres owned mostly by influential canning interests, who were his friends, he balked. Douglas Dam was blocked for two months...
Knowlson, chief of its Division of Industry Operations, announced the creation of 13 regional of-fices,* gave them broad powers as "the focal point ... for all War Production Board business" except for overall policy matters. In each of their areas, these miniature Don Nelsons (seven have been appointed so far) are to have complete WPB authority over what remains of the war-production job. Since most of the expansion was over, rationalization could begin-a grass-roots matter. There could be more subcontracting, a fuller use of existing plants, more local cooperation, less Washington red tape. A blueprint...
...best-selling books in the U.S. last fortnight was Radio Actress Ilka Chase's Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...