Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministers' decisions at Luxembourg were a source of considerable satisfaction to France's General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander in chief of Western Union's land forces. General de Lattre has long believed and argued that Western Union's land forces would have to bear the first brunt of any attack from the East, must have the appropriate priorities. He also believes that Western Union's land-defense program must eventually be fitted into a larger plan for all the Atlantic pact signatories. Not much can be done with this larger plan until...
Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott sat in as a Commonwealth member who is also one of the sterling area's chief creditors. He provided what one official later described as "a lot of good dollar area horse sense," breaking into the discussion from time to time with such admonitions as, "You don't imagine Mr. Snyder would listen to that...
...Army Chief of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, attending top-level military conferences in White Sulphur Springs, took time out for golf with two other big guns: Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg...
According to 270-lb. Jim Button, Assistant Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices and far better organization among their human enemies...
...Count. Dutton's experts start each summers campaign the previous autumn estimating the number of eggs that have been laid just under the ground in the chief breeding areas. Then the division publishes a brightly colored grasshopper map showing ranchers and farmers where to expect trouble...