Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aspect which the committee would no doubt probe thoroughly was the break ing of coded Japanese messages and the information they gave the U.S. high command before war began. Among the witnesses are Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, chief of the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1941; Captain Alwin D. Kramer, also of ONI; and various decoding and radar officers...
...dealings with committees before, and the memory still rankled in him. The Baker Board of eleven years ago, on which he had been a civilian member, had rejected his minority recommendation for 1) unity of command and 2) a separate air force. Airman Doolittle had had his knuckles rapped then. This time he hit first...
...reaction was strongest. There the moderate, non-Communist Small Holders' Party, which recently jolted the Communists in the Budapest municipal election, this week repeated its feat by a great victory in the national elections. The fact that Stalin's closest friend and adviser in the Red Army command, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, had been stationed there as the occupation chief attested the political importance of Hungary to the Russians...
When they met German colonists in Poland, living peacefully on idyllic farms and in comfortable apartments, their discipline cracked. Some went wild, looting, raping, killing. The Red Army command took stern measures, but it could not change the basic fact which made for all the trouble: the discrepancy between the standard of living in Russia and in the rest of Europe. For centuries, Russia's standard has been lower, and still is, despite the gigantic Communist effort of the last two decades...
...been a top trouble-shooter for the Army's Air Transport Command-and boss of the Hump lifeline into China-last week cheerfully took on more trouble. With the store creases still fresh in his mufti, tall, tough Brigadier General Thomas Hardin went to work as executive vice president of TACA Airways' 13,000 miles of loosely knit air routes south of the border. His first move was to hire four of his top-ranking buddies in A.T.C. to help him run TACA...