Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he is too big to be put under even the Wavell hat, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was given supreme command over land and air forces of the Allies in the China area. Besides-and this was a significant clue as to the possible operation of the joint command-the Gissimo will lead in "such portions of Indo-China and Thailand as may be available to troops of the united nations...
...doubtful that postal records would still show where or how the robbery took place. Best clue (found in the Free Library of Philadelphia): a copy of the Philadelphia Public Ledger of Nov. 12, 1852, which recorded the arrest of one John W. Comegys in connection with mail robberies between Philadelphia and Baltimore...
...worse than the fact of being trapped. The alternative posed by Author Lerner, for example, is totalitarian socialism as an escape from totalitarian fascism. Author Chamberlin, on the other hand, deems it wiser simply to lie low, meanwhile poking in the wreck age, in the hopeless hope that some clue will somehow lead to some other escape...
...Clue to the invasion, supplied by the Somaliland radio: A band of askaris made a raid to steal a flock of sheep and goats, failed...
Since the Government will publish no more warplane-production figures after October's, T. P. Wright's estimates may be the only good clue to production for months to come. He estimates U.S. production of 39,000 planes a year by the end of 1942, 49,000 by the end of 1943 (close to the President's promise of "50,000 planes a year...