Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind a spotlessly clean desk and demanded to know how it was done. "Its easy," said the old hand. "I just write on the buckslip, 'Commander Smith probably would be interested in this.' " Roared the newcomer: "You b......, I'm Commander Smith...
...message to the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics: a report from a patrol-bomber squadron that the windshield wipers on its Lockheed P2V planes did not work because the windstream lifted them off the glass. The report went down through the aircraft division to the Lockheed patrol plane desk officer, headed through the airborne equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken by an officer...
...carefully organized spree, Mossadeq summoned the Majlis to endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
...courage are beyond question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with raised Tommy guns to get out of town, Grösz said: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at my desk...
...Evelyn Caldwell, 42, who writes the "Penny Wise" shopping column for the Vancouver Sun (circ. 161,603), got a chance two months ago at a free air trip to Australia. When she asked Sun Publisher Don Cromie's permission to go, Cromie meditatively twirled the globe on his desk. "You know," he said, "Korea is only about four inches from Australia. You'd better drop in there and see how our boys are making...