Word: dunned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aeuhl E. Pullen stood erect in his long, speckled Army underwear. Over this formidable garment he pulled khaki trousers, skin-tight below the knee, a regulation khaki tunic. He wore no leggings, left an expanse of white sock showing between his trousers and Army shoes. Over all he yanked dun dungarees and a warm canvas jacket, spotted with grease. On his head he set a heavy, padded leather helmet-the tankers' standard headgear. Around his neck he reluctantly strung a new gadget much hated by the Armored Force: a recently designed dust-mask, undoubtedly useful for preventing silicosis...
...funeral service will be held at 11 o'clock this morning in the Memorial Church. The Rev. Angus Dun, dean of the Episcopal Theological School will preside...
...Opinion. Two years aborning, this Forum gave U. S. business management the first sounding board against which its total voice could be heard (TIME. Sept. 2). For it FORTUNE persuaded some 15,000 executives to form a permanent panel. Invited were : 1 ) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment of this Forum was the most detailed self-portrait for which U. S. business opinion...
Unlike its Survey of Public Opinion, FORTUNE'S Forum of Executive Opinion uses a blanketing instead of a sampling technique. The executives whose opinion FORTUNE invites (mail) are a permanent panel of some 15,000-including: 1) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet; 2) directors of the 750 biggest U. S. corporations (which own some 52% of all corporate assets); 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicate clearly that they play an important part in management...
Admiral Distance. The Pacific Ocean is 68,634,000 square miles of blue, dun and yellow water; of wastes where almost no life exists; of islands where life, riches, poverty are all superabundant. Biggest of oceans, it is big enough to swallow all the land in the world and still have room to spare. Its distances dwarf any that even big-minded Yankees are used to thinking about: New York is 3,132 miles from San Francisco; Manila is 6,238 miles from San Francisco, 9,393 miles west of Panama...