Word: ghq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies in the British zone, but like Washington, D.C., it is a neutral enclave, which West Germans have made their capital. In recognition of this, the U.S. is now moving out of its occupation headquarters in Frankfurt (in the unbombed I. G. Farben office building), to make its new GHQ in Bonn. This move is symbolic of Bonn's status as the newest and one of the most important of world capitals...
British reinforcements poured in. In 36 hours, R.A.F. transport planes airlifted 3,500 red-bereted paratroopers, originally ticketed to Abadan, from Cyprus to Fayid, British GHQ in the Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
...TIME, June 4). Warned Macy's Richard Weil Jr.: if competitors matched the cuts, Macy's would slash prices another 6% "quicker than you can say 'knife.'" But Gimbels had its own knife ready. To keep tabs on Macy's, Gimbels set up a GHQ to direct its comparison shoppers, added 287 assistant buyers and its training squad of 43 college students to its staff of a dozen shoppers. From its own GHQ, Macy's spied just as closely...
...committee meets every Wednesday at Du Pont's GHQ: the ninth floor of Wilmington's Du Pont Building. It meets all day, lunching with top men from the line departments and lower-echelon people who get to know the top command in this fashion. The top command also learns to know those in the lower echelons. Says Greenewalt: "I started looking for my successor the first year I was in office...
...TIME does not agree with Newsman Handleman that its story was misleading. The nub of TIME'S story, so far as it dealt with Handleman, was that he had broken a correspondents' agreement to wait for an official GHQ release before reporting the arrival of new troops...