Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late in the war. . . . Bitter experience has shown . . . the closer we come to the end of the war the more pressing becomes the need for sustained war production. . . . [National Service] would assure that we have the right numbers of workers in the right places at the right times...
Finally Commander Robertson decided to move the ship. Harbor Pilot Brackett, ignoring danger, went aboard. While the flames licked closer to the million-dollar cargo, he guided the Volunteer down the harbor, finally beached her on McNab Island. There seacocks were opened to flood the holds. The ship was saved...
...Washington, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy joined Admiral King in adding another half-inch stripe to the one two-inch and three half-inch stripes on his sleeve, after moving the old ones closer together to avoid crowding at the elbow. (Generals of the Army George C. Marshall and Henry H. Arnold ordered new insignia, but had nothing yet to show their new status...
...other men made their marks on the year, Sidney Hillman of the C.I.O. and James Caesar Petrillo of the Musician's Union. Whether or not it decided the election, Hillman's Political Action Committee brought labor closer to the balance of power in national politics than it had ever been before. Petrillo, after successfully defying the War Labor Board and the President of the U.S., rammed home the revolutionary principle of royalties paid by corporations directly to union treasuries...
...best the harbor of Guam could shelter only about 100 ships. But in comparison to Pearl Harbor, it was nearly 4,000 miles closer to the war. From Australia this week a radio newscast reported that five-star Admiral Chester W. Nimitz would move his headquarters from Pearl Harbor to Guam shortly after the first of the year...