Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounting cost of pioneering new transport types. By getting an average eight-hours-per-day out of each of its 192 planes, it has proved what oldtimers like Eddie Rickenbacker have long preached: that the more a plane is used, the better performance it gives. Said Airlift Boss Lieut. General Curtis LeMay last week: "Leave a plane on the ground and it starts deteriorating. But keep it in the air, with regular maintenance, and it thrives on steady and prolonged...
Marvin and Obadiah Leonard were a couple of Texas farm boys when they came to Fort Worth in 1918, bought a general store and settled down. They knew how to make customers feel at home. Said Marvin: "If you see a man who wants to spit, walk in front of him and spit, so he'll see that it's the thing to do." Said Obadiah: "The customer pays our bills. We're going to be good...
...Leonard brothers, in addition to low prices, lure customers with such things as shopping buggies that have space for both packages and babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...
...other books, historical figures drift in & out of the story, blending indistinguishably with the figments of Author Sinclair's imagination. Among them: Hitler, Marshal Kesselring, Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Roosevelt, General Patton, General Donovan. They seem much less real than the imaginary characters...
Lanny masters his scientific lessons without much trouble, hoodwinks Hitler about U.S. plans in Italy, and tells General Patton what to do about taking Paris. The book ends with Roosevelt's election for the fourth term, and his discussion with Lanny as to what he should do next...