Word: complement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold Smith, the Budget Director, conferring oftener with President Roosevelt than any other man save Harry Hopkins, had turned into a kind of left-hand man to complement Hopkins on the right. Long before the Army shake-ups in March, Smith's able, quiet staff workers had run fish-cold eyes over the War Department, seeking out weak spots. When the State Department and Nelson Rockefeller's Inter-American Committee feuded, Harold Smith wooed them back to harmony. Before Presidential Adviser Samuel Rosenman reorganized war production, and cleaned up the defense-housing mess, he conferred chiefly with Smith...
...announcement of the Army's enlisted reserve plan, to complement the Navy's V-1 program, and President Conant's suggestion for federal scholarships to give future officers a college education has changed this picture completely. Once scorned "cultural" subjects are now recognized as vital weapons. And with this change in attitude on the part of the Armed Forces, we must change our own attitude as well. We cannot afford to neglect the broad common content of our education, since we have seen that it is at last equally as important as electronics or industrial administration. Prospective infantry lieutenants...
Twenty hard strokes just after the three-quarter mile mark of Lake Carnegie's Henley course gave Captain Bobby Lincoln's 150-pound crew the wherewithall to capture the Goldthwait Cup for the fifth consecutive year in addition to usual complement of Yale and Princeton shirts...
...Navy still had "substantial forces" in the Bay of Bengal; enemy accounts mentioned at least several more cruisers, another aircraft carrier, two battleships (including the old, U.S.-repaired Malaya). The British figured that the Japs had three of their newest 50,000-ton battleships, five aircraft carriers, a strong complement of cruisers and destroyers. Gloomiest index of the results of the first battles for the Bay was a British call for help from the U.S. Navy...
...competition. But in the west Pan Am ran smack into Grace, which has toted Chilean nitrates, Colombian coffee, Peruvian copper and Panama hats in its green, white & black funneled ships for decades, considers that part of South America a state of Grace. Grace was thinking about an airline to complement its shipping business. So Pan Am and Grace made a deal-each anted up $500,000, agreed to own and operate Panagra, 50-50. Panagra started flying in May 1929 with a wide-winged, many-strutted Sikorsky amphibian...