Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference opened this week, Arthur Vandenberg was unquestionably the most important U.S. delegate present, and perhaps the single most important man. Molotov would loom large because of the power he wields by proxy from the Kremlin; Eden would command consideration as the spokesman and heir apparent of Churchill. But by & large the success of a world security organization would stand or fall on the question of U.S. adherence. And the answer to that question lay with Senator Vandenberg...
Redeployment of U.S. troops in Europe was already under way this week. It was not yet the vast movement that will shift the bulk of General Eisenhower's fighting men to the Pacific and the command of General MacArthur. But it was far enough along to require the full-time attention of a major general. The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers...
G.l.s in Japan. General Lord's real job will begin when the High Command gives the orders to transship the ground forces which will be finally needed to conquer and occupy Japan. How soon that will be was anyone's guess. General Eisenhower operated last week as though he had never heard of a war against Japan. Ships still carried replacements to Europe. In Eisenhower's theater or on the way were enough replacements to take care of several months of heavy fighting...
...Question. In the kitchen of an Essen apartment, where a regimental command post had been set up, the prisoner was interviewed...
Furthermore, domestic lines have learned so much in flying around the globe for the Army's Air Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service that they are now confident that they can meet Pan Am at its own globe-girdling game. On the thousands of route miles which the U.S. has strung around the world, some eight domestic lines, Pan Am, Pan American-Grace and American Export Airlines have flown the astronomical distance of 2,581,903,999 passenger miles on overseas routes since Pearl Harbor...