Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel and automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
...Confiscate Anything." A short walk beyond, Housewife Yu Chi-ping is sweeping debris from the dark cliffside cave in which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president...
...onetime Navy and airlines pilot, now United's operations manager; Harold Crary, a onetime newspaperman who handles United's advertising, publicity and traffic; Hal E. Nourse, who runs the economics planning section; and Ray Ireland, ex-colonel and deputy chief of staff of the Air Transport Command (he gave Elliott Roosevelt's dog, Blaze, his ill-famed plane ride). Ireland makes the policy decisions when Patterson is not available...
After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
...Coale considers all the possibilities. If war starts after a spell of international atomic control, there will be a period when few bombs are available. Each nation will frantically start producing more. At the same time, each nation will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...