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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Umeealik Goes North | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Chief danger of Communism was the damage its agents could do-and have undoubtedly done-in fanning flames, inciting to riot, disrupting negotiations. The U.S. got a sample of the possibilities open to saboteurs when a civilian inspector in the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in New Jersey went berserk, destroyed thousands of dollars worth of intricate instruments before he was subdued and hauled off to a psychopathic ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Black, Bright and Red | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Premier Cvetkovitch the officer simply said: "Come." The Premier dressed and went with the patrol to General Staff Headquarters. There he found the Air Corps Chief, General Dusan Simovitch, with Chief of Staff General Peter Kossitch and Inspector General Bogoljub Hitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Western Union Telegraph Co. last week (to succeed new Aid-to-Britain Expediter William Averell Harriman) was Ernest Eden Norris, president of Southern Railway. Director Norris' last association with Western Union was as an $8-a-month operator in Hoopeston, Ill. in the 1890s. When a visiting inspector found that his cronies had turned the office into a clubroom, he was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Rehiring | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...hair was a grave matter); "Resolved, the hen is flightier than the Ford," etc. These debates were considered so funny that the group toured Missouri for years, the spontaneously funny McDaniel roaring at his own gags; grave, reserved Donnell making his points with a lemony smile. When Donnell became Inspector-General of the Scottish Rite lodge, McDaniel eulogized his friend in a tribute that was held to be the exhaustive last word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Just Chums | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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