Word: depotism
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Lord Halifax, Britain's towering Ambassador to the U.S., fixed things so that when the smallish mayor of Nelson, B.C., delivered his welcoming oration at the depot they would be approximately face to face. The mayor stood on the train's rear platform, Halifax on the ground. "Ladies and gentlemen," began the mayor, as the train moved down the track...
Munda. The battle for Munda and its isolated supply depot at Bairoko Harbor braked down to a process of slow elimination. U.S. troops had come to grips with the enemy in his ultimate warrens, and he was not an enemy who surrendered. Sloughing through knee-deep mud, the Americans were within capturing distance of both airfield and harbor, were cracking open the bristling, fire-spitting concrete and earthwork mounds in which the Japs have taken final refuge...
...Schmidt of Salem, Ore.) recorded the cause of death and the number and type of wounds as each body was unclothed. Members of the graves registration company cut open each pocket and placed the personal effects of the dead in clean wool socks for dispatch to the quartermaster depot at Kansas City. One identification tag has been left on each body, the other nailed to the cross which will be placed above the grave until a larger metal plate can be stamped. The graves are laid out in perfect geometrical pattern; they have been charted so that no mistake...
...person who originated this program and got Chicago's Board of Education to okay it is a handsome, 36-year-old Negro teacher, Madeline Robinson Morgan. She is the wife of a civilian foreman at Chicago's Army Quartermaster Depot. As a girl Mrs. Morgan knew days and nights of terror, during Chicago's 1919 race riots. She got a master's degree in education at Northwestern University, taught at Chicago's Emerson School...
Plaudits to TIME, May 3, for its article on the red-tape menace. My only criticism is that the article wasn't strong enough. ... In the supply depot where I now work, there are in one office 450 people doing a job that could readily be handled by 150. As many as six different types of forms, each conveying identically the same information, occupy the time of six different clerks...