Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...
...Education is indeed the dullest of subjects," remarks Jacques Barzun in his newly published Teacher in America (Little, Brown; $3), "and I intend to say as little about...
...Happened. The record is here: Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Truk, the Marianas, Palau, Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring...
Henry Kaiser added that furthermore, he and not DPC, owns Fontana, even if the Reconstruction Finance Corp. holds a $110,000,000 mortgage. Although RFC lent him the cash to build the plant, it cannot take over unless he stops paying it back. This he does not intend...
...Germany. Did the Russians intend to occupy eastern Germany alone? Anything short of an agreement for the tripartite occupation of Germany would proclaim the Big Three meeting, whatever fancy talk it used to cover up with, a failure...