Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army General Arnold will be not the least important member of the operating firm. He is himself one of the Joint Chiefs (the others: George Marshall, Ernest King, the President's Fleet Admiral William Leahy). His Pacific assignment is to boss the virtually autonomous, global Twentieth Air Force B-29s. As chief of the Army Air Forces he will also command smaller Army bombers. The theorists who believe that a nation can be brought to its knees by airpower may get another chance to prove it. Congested, inflammable Japan is an excellent laboratory...
Alger Hiss was one of the Harvard Law School students whose records earned them the favor of Professor (now Justice) Felix Frankfurter and a year as secretary to the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was drafted from a New York law firm by the New Deal in 1933, joined the State Department in 1936, accompanied President Roosevelt to Yalta...
When a radio station is about to be sold, FCC has the authority to say yes or no to the whole deal. It usually says yes. Last week it uttered a firm, cold no. FCC did not approve of the prospective buyers of Manhattan's station...
...Many times we have wanted to fold the magazine up; it is hard to remain seated on the low hummocks of satire and humor in the midst of grim events. A satirist at breakfast may get a firm grip on his day's work . . . only to have the whole thing drop out from under him when his eye reaches the casualty list...
...head (Cecil Kellaway) of the firm where Miss Colbert works and Mr. MacMurray used to, is 100% eager to exploit the romantic bonanza. While the hero is still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly...