Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another occasion, Reparations Commissioner Ed Pauley described him as "not only a good friend of mine but also the President's . . ." The letters got him a $5,600-a-year job with the State Department and free transportation to Greece with a U.S. mission at a time when he was also drawing $1,000 a month from Albert Verley & Co., Chicago perfume importers...
Parade the Mace. The fact was, Lucas told his colleagues, that Congress would have to get over its easygoing ways. "The people hired us to stay here the year round, if necessary. It is not like the good old days, when Congress could meet, spend three weeks on the tariff, pass a few appropriation bills and go home...
...crusty old Carl Vinson. At last the House Armed Services Committee was going to get to the bottom of the anonymous charges that the Air Force's B-36 bomber had been bought in fraud and double-dealing and that the bomber itself was not much good. The hot newsreel floodlights, which went into use only at dramatic moments, were turned...
Would Worth also admit to the committee that the whole scheme had done the Navy no good? Worth would go further than that: "I will state to anybody that I've done the Navy no good...
...help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation...