Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International air policy: although Congress is still up in the air, best indication is that the "chosen instrument" plan (see AIR) would be rejected...
...Having made these points, Juan Trippe then gave the nod to a Senate bill, introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran, which would establish the "chosen instrument," or federally regulated "community company." Such a bill would also mean the end of Pan Am as an operating agency. But Pan Am's equipment and know-how would form the nucleus of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
There was more behind the sudden shift than the ditching of an unsuccessful commander for one who bore a somewhat overblown reputation as a "stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...
Last week ex-Rhodes Scholar Pete Brandt was unanimously chosen by fellow newsmen to be the first recipient of the $500 annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for the fairness and quality of his Washington reporting. He got the prize at a White House Correspondents' dinner attended by Franklin Roosevelt. The President had not been told the winner's name beforehand, only that it was someone he liked and respected. Said he, when Brandt's name was announced: "I'd have voted the same...
...place of competition Jimmie Forrestal advocated a monopolistic chosen instrument. Congress, said he, should require all U.S. companies engaged in international communications to merge into one big government-backed corporation...