Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Precisely this basic decision seemed to have been made just last week?exactly ten months after Pearl Harbor. At least in its essentials, the decision even appeared to have been made?wrapped up and delivered in its minimum detail (so many weapons for so many men in such & such a time) to Donald Nelson, Paul McNutt and other key civilians who had to have the information before they could effectively get on with their jobs...
...main essentials, including the time of the second front, the Army's plan stands today as it was originally framed in Washington last December when Winston Churchill and some of Britain's top military men visited the U.S. Such details as the size and nature of the forces to be sent to the fronts were settled later, but the choice of the fronts themselves remains unchanged. The loss of Malaya, Singapore and Java, events on the Russian front, the agitation for a second front, later conferences in London, Washington and Moscow, Joseph Stalin's demand for the fulfilment of Allied...
Collector Erwin picked up his stoves during the past ten years, for the fun of it and for the occasional whimsical client who wanted a "Victorian room." Erwin knows his Victorian interior. He has designed sets for a good many movies, including Little Women, noted for their period detail. But the principal charm he sees in his stoves is that they are functional; no matter how old they are, they can still heat a room...
...elaborate dinners, dances, cocktail parties, came socialites, Hollywoodites, Broadwayites, statesmen, royalty. The star of a Broadway opening was as thrilled by an after-theater party at Condé Nast's as she was by the first-night applause. The apartment which he himself planned to the last detail was so arranged he could entertain 100 cocktail guests on the roof, a dinner party of 50, another couple of hundred in the ballroom, all at the same time. Amidst 18th-Century French paintings, Chinese screens and a slightly rococo splendor, Condé Nast presided, bald and genial, peering sphinxlike through...
...cope with the detail of enforcing this drastic transportation edict ODT will increase its number of regional offices from 50 to 150. With luck, and truck drivers willing, ODT hopes to stretch the tire supply until there is enough synthetic rubber available for civilian needs...