Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "People" [TIME, Aug. 26] about the illustrious, beautiful, "neat, sexy, appealing and clean" Anita Loos has caused rising blood pressure in many. You say she threw up her hands at the wild younger generation. She is darn lucky she can still throw up her hands and pad her tummy with steaks and martinis (as she did in the picture you ran), thanks to the "wild younger generation," the generation which spilled blood all over the world for her and others just like...
...veterans' families, sharing 40 rooms (and 15 bathrooms) in Kildare Barracks, settled down to spend the winter. They chipped in $25-a-month rent a family, will use it to clean and paint up the place, called in exterminators to get rid of swarms of cockroaches. Said V.H.L. Leader Hanratty: "What we did was illegal. But . . . these places belonged to the Government. Who's the Government but us? . . . We took what was ours...
...other high officers. It cited "the decoration with the Legion of Merit of a colonel in the Engineer Corps who had so badly mismanaged the only source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice...
...alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even...
...only six weeks (TIME, July 8) 55-year-old General Littlejohn has used his vast energy to clean house. Regulations were often too complex to understand. WAA was months behind in its paper work. Inventories were inaccurate and out-of-date. Littlejohn promptly called in all WAA directors and representatives for a three-day what-is-wrong conference. Result was the tabulation of 120 problems the organization had inherited. The General gave his staff a month to correct them. And property began to move faster...