Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replace Trowbridge, Johnson made an expectably unexpected choice: Cyrus Rowlett Smith, 68, a salty, poker-loving Texan who took over American Airlines in 1934 and guided its growth through the '50s (1967 revenues: $842 million). A brilliant executive, "C.R." helped organize the Army's wartime Air Transport Command, of which he was deputy commander, and wound up a major general at war's end, when he returned to American to steer it into the postwar age of commercial aviation. He resigned only last month as American's chief executive officer and remains chairman of the board...
...fore and aft, and large sundecks on top. "It's almost like living in a Florida home," says Chris-Craft Sales Promotion Manager C. G. Houser. It's also great for parties. Brigadier General William Shedd, deputy director of operations of the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, uses his 34-ft. houseboat (appropriately christened the Outhouse) for entertaining afloat on the Potomac, with the number of guests limited only by the number of life preservers aboard...
...tackling his topic, today's linguistics scholar often must command one or more of such diverse fields of expertise as psychology, biology, mathematics, even electrical engineering or analytic philosophy. As it develops, the discipline has spawned such hybrids or specialties as computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, even biological linguistics. All of which has led to a far higher standing in academe than universities traditionally accorded their linguists, who until recently were normally employed as mere appendages to anthropology or foreign-language departments...
...Arjay Miller, 51, to the new post of vice chairman. As such, Miller will run Ford's finances, legal department, public relations, Washington staff and long-range planning. Knudsen, as chief operating officer, will not only control sales, product development and plant operations, but will also assume full command of the company when Chairman and Chief Executive Ford is absent...
...that we have reached the kind of turning-point that occurred sometime in 1942, when a secret policy-decision was made to abandon traditional restraints against large urban populations. As ordinary citizens, we may never know when or how such a turning point is reached, as the British Air Command continued to deny any policy-change even after the destruction of Dresden...