Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Mead of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to standardize military engine models, up production by bringing as many plants as possible into a field now limited largely to two companies (Pratt & Whitney, division of United Aircraft; Curtiss-Wright); 2) Mr. Morgenthau, Federal Lender Jesse Jones, Tommy Corcoran, et al., in the roles of industrial advisers, were finagling for control...
Beyond these first 100 pages Osa Johnson's story is more familiar; in their famed animal films (Simba, et...
After watching their fifth column's maneuvers for three weeks (TIME, May 6 et ante), Dutch military authorities last week swooped down on suspect strongholds in The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam. They carted away and interned 21 Nazis, Communists, etc., including National Socialist Party Editor M. M. Rost van Tonninggen, member of The Netherlands Second Chamber. That something was afoot in the Low Countries was indicated by the fact that within 24 hours the Belgian Government put visa requirements in effect on her Netherlands and Luxembourg frontiers, arrested two Flemish Nationalists...
...uniting conference at Kansas City (TIME, May 8, 1939, et seq.) slapped things together with a minimum of debate. Looking on their handiwork after a year's lapse, Methodists made minor adjustments, no major changes. By the time the conference adjourned this week...
...love with Sally Fairfax, wife of his close neighbor and friend; they discreetly evade speculation on whether his feelings for Martha were no more than dutiful. Stanch alibiers for his military blunders, they uncritically dislike Washington's critics Jefferson, Lee, Gates, Sam Adams, the Conway Cabal, et al. But their biography is the most compact and exact thus far (with 130 pages of notes which, as usual in scholarly biographies, are frequently more interesting than the text). And they display real imaginativeness in portraying Washington as a great, human central figure against his remote 18th-Century background...