Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Rev. Joseph A. Burke, Bishop of Buffalo, might look even beyond Buffalo and discover that we have followed God's command to be fruitful-we have multiplied, and the earth is filled; now all we need to do is use our heads...
...next report, due every 5° of longitude, did not come in, a "phase of uncertainty" was declared, during which all stations and planes were urged to look and listen for the plane. Half an hour later, an emergency was declared. Ten hours passed before an R.A.F. Coastal Command plane, scouring the sea some 40 minutes out from the Irish coast, spotted traces of oil. Coming down to 100 ft., the pilot saw the dreadful midden of disaster: partly inflated rubber life rafts, remnants of cabin furnishings, handbags, bodies, floating luggage...
...noticed that Otto Witte bore a striking resemblance to Halim Eddine, and then and there the whole beautiful scheme sprang full-blown to Otto's mind. In no time at all a pair of telegrams, purportedly originating in Constantinople, were on their way to Essad Pasha, Albanian-born commander of Turkish forces in the Durazzo area. One telegram was signed "Sultan" and the other "High Command," but both carried the same news: "Prince Halim Eddine arriving Albania, will assume command all troops stationed there...
Noncom's War. Last April, Bigeard's enemies succeeded in getting him assigned to command a special school designed to train junior officers in "revolutionary warfare." Unlike many other paratroop officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French...
...companies entered vigorous denials to FTC charges. As the kingpin of the alleged monopoly, Pfizer's President John E. McKeen said: "Pfizer never engaged in a conspiracy, never misused its patents, never fixed prices, and wields no monopolistic powers." Although recognizing that the newer wonder drugs do command high prices, the manufacturers long since have cut the price of the older standbys, such as penicillin and streptomycin, so low that they are added in large amounts to animal feed. Said Bristol-Myers' President Frederick N. Schwartz: "Our average profit on all antibiotics sold in 1957 was less than...