Word: inspects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Came some brass hats to inspect the hospital. Presently the ranking officer of the party disappeared into the toilet and the colonel heard an unusual fuss. He went in to see what the trouble was and found the officer standing on the seat, pouring the bucket of water into the overhead reservoir, preparing to pull the chain. That, someone remarked, was what the Army calls "going through channels...
...Hayden reaped his third harvest (26 bushels), he had notable visitors: Henry Ford and Charles Figy, Michigan's Commissioner of Agriculture. Ford, who owns the acre of land used for the project, brought along a -year-old self-raking reaper for use in the harvesting. Figy came to inspect the wheat which in its first harvesting had multiplied 50-fold, almost twice Michigan's average. So rapidly did the wheat grains grow that Hayden calls them "dynamic kernels." Next year, Hayden expects to harvest from 15 to 20 acres...
...removed, but men in public life, notably those in federal government, who cultured the odoriferous background of this war with nearsightedness, selfishness and partisan politics, have survived and even dared to aspire to leadership in the future. Servicemen are not so tolerant ; they would advise many officials to inspect their own prewar records and start looking for new jobs...
...Axis prisoners now quartered in wire-ringed camps scattered through the U.S. hinterland, the war is over but not the duration. On both sides of the wire, prisoners and guards alike wait for an end to their unwilling fellowship. Last week the press was permitted to inspect some of the camps newly built as by-products of victory. One of the most notable that newsmen saw, because it houses the most explosive elements (German and Italian officers, but quartered separately), is Camp Crossville, Tenn...
...letter he wrote so appalled Governor Dewey that he immediately phoned Manhattan Lawyer Archie O. Dawson, told him to inspect the hospital. After phoning the Governor from a booth outside the gates, Dawson entered the neat-appearing, modern, $14,000,000 hospital which had 4,580 patients, 713 employes. Findings published last week...