Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
Slot machines now clank in remote service stations. There are few towns so small that a housewife cannot take a pass at the dice for a dime. In Las Vegas and Reno, divorcees, cowhands, tourists and plain citizens crowd plush palaces where roulette wheels whir and stacked silver dollars gleam on green tables. Gamblers are Nevada's new bonanza kings. Wilbur ("Little Caesar") Clark, 37-year-old operator of Las Vegas' gaudy new Monte Carlo Casino, had only $2,200 in 1941. Now he owns a gambling palace, a hotel, four cocktail bars and two cardrooms; is part...
...weeks since the boys left home but the far-away gleam of bliss still glitters in most of their eyes--only jarred occasionally by some CPC (20YrCR) who was promoted, married, and detached on three consecutive days at the order of Lt. Beckham...
...With a gleam in his eye, Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser sat down before the Senate's Small Business Committee. Said he, with no preliminary hems & haws: Congress had not yet set a decisive policy governing the disposal of over $15 billion in Government-owned war plants; it is high time Congress did. Forthwith, Mr. Kaiser laid down what he thought that policy should be. The key point: the Government should sell the plants with the primary aim of creating jobs rather than wringing out the last possible dollar for itself...
Follow the Gleam. In Washington, the Office of Price Administration rhapsodized: "Procedures under the transfer are formalized in General Order ODT-21A which superseded General Order ODT21 as amended, and in Amendment 1 to ODT Administrative Order No. 8, Amendment 2 to ODT Administrative Order No. 15, and in Amendment 156 to OPA Ration Order 5-C-Gasoline, all effective October 16th...