Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam requested by the President in August. In a rebuff to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, conferees rejected his merge-and-conserve proposal to make the organized Army Reserve part of the National Guard, reducing their combined total manpower from 700,000 to 550,000 and simplifying the chain of command...
...jotted it down in a hasty sketch and later recalled it the tranquillity of his studio. But there they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural...
...aloud at the bickering efforts of farm organizations to solve problems. Most farmers belong to a farm organization only to participate in low-cost insurance programs or cooperatives, which are growing bigger all the time. The Farm Bureau itself is looking into the idea of buying a huge supermarket chain. Farm organizations are big business, as Shuman is aware...
Word of that powerful happening mightily multiplied the fold. Moving to Harlem at the depth of the Depression, Father Divine used the alms of his flock to support countless missions that offered generous meals for 150 and immaculate rooms for $2 a week, organized a chain of employment agencies to provide jobs and Divine guidance for the needy. Said a white social worker in Harlem during those years: "Father Divine rendered an inestimable service, and he did it with genuine goodness...
...often bogged down. The major question facing the negotiators was which paper would get the more profitable morning market. Thieriot demanded that position for his bigger and more successful paper. Randy Hearst, who was joined in the negotiations by his brother William, head of the family's nationwide chain, was reluctant to tamper with the Examiner, which had been their father's favorite paper as well as his first one. In the end, however, sentiment gave way to the survival instinct...