Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Technical Service Command: an "anti-exposure" suit (made of nylon coated with a material that makes it water-and airtight) to keep a shipwrecked man warm-even in freezing water...
...Stern trial and punishment, not only of the top Nazis but to "extend down vertically into the population for a certain distance." To be executed: all high Nazi and Gestapo officials, Gauleiters, members of the Army High Command who helped to mistreat occupied countries, lesser officials who zealously carried out Nazi policies. To be imprisoned for life: all smaller fry who acted with "singular cruelty." To be interned, exiled or held in labor battalions: all incurable antidemocrats...
...committee wants the facts on whether Pan Am is doing a better job than the domestic lines, he said that it could get a true comparison from the Army's Air Transport Command. Many of its globe-girdling routes are being flown by both Pan Am and domestic lines. On these figures Juan Trippe is perfectly willing to rest his case...
With Berlin and Bremen silent, Hamburg became the official broadcaster of the German High Command's daily communiqués (which fell hours behind schedule "owing to communications difficulties"). Dr. Karl Scharping, propaganda pet of Goebbels, asserted from Hamburg: "Germany ... is a force which grows. . . ." When the Hamburg radio announced the fall of the city, Deutschland über Alles filled...
...when Hamburg was next heard, the words were English-a rebroadcast of General Eisenhower's proclamation of last fall: "The Allied forces serving under my command have now entered Germany. We come as conquerors...