Word: collections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traditionally, generals collect swords, and Ike's trophy collection is no exception.* There are the famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...
They Muck In. By using mechanical equipment of all kinds, less than 2% of the man-hours worked were spent in handling materials. When rail deliveries were slow, the Americans sent trucks out all over the country to collect materials. When work was slowed on one job because of a materials shortage, employees were instantly transferred to another job. And to keep supervisors on their toes, the project manager issued a daily list of general instructions and production questions "in taut, straightforward language." Sample: "Mallory- what happened to the radial...
...Jeffersonian Democrat of Senator Harry Byrd's school, Andrews, who abhors bureaucracy and high taxes, is an unlikely man to be running a big bureau to collect high taxes. But he believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says...
...Governor Robert Crosby, and his pockets were bulging with lapel buttons and pledge cards also marked "Operation Honesty." Before the week was out, he had flown 1,284 miles to make nine speeches, and had collapsed with indigestion and fatigue. Bob Crosby was working on a fatiguing assignment: to collect taxes without adequate enforcement machinery...
...groping, tireless search did not stop as he grew older and stronger. The Webbs were on relief in the 1930s; Jack tramped forth daily with a brown paper bag to collect the wilted carrots and beets that were handed out through public agencies. But at Los Angeles Belmont High School he edged into amateur dramatics, drew cartoons for the school yearbook, and as a senior beat out the football captain to become president of the student body...