Word: departments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incident from those years dramatically illustrated the way that attitude worked. In 1945 George Marshall was getting ready to depart on his special mission to Chungking. He awaited the President's instructions, and the War Department submitted a draft of what it would advise. The War Department would promise Chiang Kai-shek U.S. support in establishing the Nationalist government's authority over all of China and Manchuria; it wanted the U.S. to use every means to get the Nationalists north of the Yellow River. Purpose: to let them, instead of the Chinese Communists, take the territories abandoned...
...McGraw, 70 years old, was taking a less active part in the company, and Strike was president. For his wartime job of building close to $175 million in war plants and bases, Engineer Strike became so well known that the War Depart ment sent him to Europe to supervise the rebuilding of German industry and the housing of some 4,000,000 homeless Germans. He did a bang-up job, and the Government sent him to Japan on a similar task. Later he became president of Overseas Consultants Inc., an eleven-firm, nonprofit combine which mapped out a $650 million...
...groups have come to my office requesting information as to the extent of their powers that we are convinced that the proposed rules statement is very much in order. Under the plan all organizations will know what is expected of them. This does not mean that the College will depart in any way from its traditional laissez-faire policy...
...Peter's, which ends the ceremony, the Epistle (the Book of Judith, 13:23) begins: "Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth . . . Because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth...
...skeleton staff of Crimeds saw their dauntless friends depart, and hastily prepared the biography of Dr. Hu appearing on page four...