Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert Hoover had heard all this before, and he demurred in detail: "1) No food goes directly or indirectly to the Germans.- If the Germans furnish their part of the supplies, it will amount to more food values sent into Belgium than could possibly be taken out of Belgium or fed to their own Army. The effect is to reduce, not increase, German supplies...
...rank of U. S. writers is a large and loyal cult whose members are bound together by a common axiom of composition that they had to memorize in college: "Individualize by specific detail." They were all students of Yale's famed Professor John Milton ("Johnny") Berdan. Last week Johnny Berdan's former students, now heavily concentrated in Hollywood and Manhattan, as one man rattled their teacups (a Berdan way of saying they were unnerved). They had just learned that Johnny, after 38 years, was retiring from Yale...
Having wangled ASCAP into a consent decree, the Department of Justice expected the society to get together with the broadcasters pronto. But BMI showed no eagerness to adjust its music difficulties. BMI was taking time out to study ASCAP's decree in detail. If it proved to be more favorable than the one BMI signed a few weeks ago, BMI was prepared to demand an equal break...
Clinging "flowing" to the around peaks, positions that avoiding did not valleys, fall quickly, attacking constantly, his tough little Army soon cleared Greece of all but dead and captive Italians, carried the war into Albania. Deprived of its great strategist, Greece still has his plans worked out in minutest detail. Future success will depend on the ability of Commander in Chief Field Marshal Alexander Papagos to execute them without the lashing vitality of Banker Little at John the behind...
...executive staff of the 6th Corps Area. The program whips into a description of the joys of camp life, introduces Homer scratching away at a letter to his mother. Its first episode last week dealt with Homer's arrival at camp, next one will reveal him on garbage detail...