Word: detectives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson left open the fourth big job, that of deputy chairman on program progress who checks on performance to anticipate bottlenecks, detect causes of failure, correct mistakes as they...
From their seats in Washington, offensive-minded officers of the Army detect on Europe's battlefield something more than the chance to help Russia. Ever so faintly they sniff the smell of victory, perhaps in 1942, more likely...
...gave no inkling of how it would police ceiling evasion through lowered quality. Difficult to detect, this practice can increase consumers' cost of living just as surely as the actual increase of prices...
...country's sandlotters into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress. To ballyhoo the sand-lot business, he introduced many innovations: automatic home-plate duster (compressed air whooshed through an underground tube), neon-lighted Scoreboard, jack-in-the-box microphone for umpire's announcements, electric eye to detect balls...
...hour intervals, thereby pumping a steady supply of fresh strength into the front lines. His artillery, which hammered Manila Bay's defending forts from concealed positions across the Bay, was usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent...