Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's bachelor Congressman, grey-thatched John M. Costello, member of the Military Affairs Committee, flew to the coast with Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold and Britain's Sir John Dill for a quick inspection of aircraft plants. To John Costello the aircraft workers unburdened themselves: they were shocked when they saw the first tax deduction on their paychecks. They did not mind paying now, but how long would this...
...editor announces that the second issue of Q M is scheduled to make its appearance on Friday, April 2. On the staff are Dave Thompson, Dill Singer, George Bodice, Hays Cross, Don Frisbee, Bill Green, Charles Honis, Jim No land, Charles Reader, Oils Wilson, and dick Robinson...
Fortnight ago General H. H. Arnold and Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Dill held secret conference with Chungking officials, flew to New Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell...
...General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Lieut. Generals Henry H. Arnold and Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Vice Marshal Inglis and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harriman...
...entourage was equally impressive: Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Chief of Britain's Naval Staff; General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of the Commandos; Field Marshal Sir John Dill; Lieut. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief of the Middle East; Major General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army (see p. 26); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder...