Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project-The Living Hall of Washington-was sponsored by Willard Monroe Kiplinger, publisher of the businessmen's weekly tip sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What...
...stage was set in Poland and the cast was in the wings. The Russian-German front from East Prussia to the Carpathians bore a strong resemblance to the Vitebsk front just before Joseph Stalin's armies launched their great summer offensive in June. There were the same signs this week that Russia was accumulating tremendous reservoirs of new power behind the line, the same enemy fretfulness over blows that the Germans could see and feel were coming...
...with the decline in civilian enthusiasm, veterans began to band together. For the first time in U.S. history "the soldier vote began to cast a long shadow athwart American politics." The Grand Army of the Republic became a major political force. Pension claims began to pour in-at first for war wounds and illness, later for postwar failure in health, finally for war service regardless of need. Claim agents combed the country. One statesman remarked that the G.A.R., having saved the country, now wanted...
Nazi Chief of Staff Heinz Guderian pleaded for volunteers from the Hitler-jugend (boys 14 to 17 years). The propaganda radio bleated: "Thousands of fanatic Hitler youths are moving up to the front." For Producer Eisenhower the problem was to get his cast and props on the spot at once. The Germans clinging to the ports of France were spending their lives to delay him. Eisenhower's drives were already in operation at a fantastic distance of 400 to 550 miles from Cherbourg and the nearby beaches, the fount of his supplies. If he were to attack quickly...
...company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running a $100,000 midget racing auto business. He learned to fly when he was so small that he had to sit in his father's lap to reach the controls. With his father, he invented a machine for casting aluminum; since the war began he has been busy manufacturing cast-aluminum plane parts. Anticipating many postwar uses for this process, Stanley has already designed a cast-aluminum frying pan in which eggs can be cooked without grease...