Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Labor Relations Board, to succeed ailing Harry A. Millis as NLRBoss; quiet, businesslike John B. ("Jack") Hutson, onetime head of Commodity Credit Corp., to replace Grover B. Hill as Under Secretary of Agriculture. ¶ Said he would not hesitate to ration civilian travel if the huge redeployment job makes it necessary...
...himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold," said Novelist James M. Cain to Will Woollcott, "and how I hate the son-of-a-bitch...
...government and that it was under control had been contradicted by the action and words of SHAEF's General Rooks. Military necessity may have required General Eisenhower and his field commanders to use the interim services of Admiral Doenitz and his motley crew in bringing the huge German machine under control. If so, circumstances had given "the German High Command" at Flensburg a fateful opportunity, and Doenitz & Co. had made the most of it. The world had not heard the last of that peculiarly German institution, the General Staff Corps...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum, determined not to look like an arsenal of antiquities, last week went way back to ancient Greece for a sprucing-up act. Visitors who associate Greek art with dusty plaster and dreary drapes of frozen chitons will have their eyes opened: the Met's dolled-up Greek Art collection has a fresh-as-a-daisy look...
China will need the aid of U.S. money, resources, and engineering skill to complete its Yangtze project. But U.S. aid would not be pure altruism. Such a huge source of power would gradually alter much of China's backward economy, giving her a new capacity to repay the cost, and at the same time making her industries and people customers for U.S. electrical equipment...