Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with emphasis on control. The invitations announced last week were in effect a smack right on the Kremlin's chops. The Far Eastern Advisory Commission will not even advise, much less control, Douglas Mac Arthur. Its U.S. liaisons will be with the White House, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Soon British, Chinese and Russian troops-possibly a division of each-will land in Japan to share the burdens, the discomforts, and the geisha girls. But MacArthur's directives will continue to come from the U.S., and the U.S. will continue to make overall Jap occupation...
Brazilian G-men got suspicious. So did some of the Japs, when the Imperial Fleet failed to show up. Their joint conclusion: Sugai and henchmen were not patriots, but racketeers who had been inducing a banzai fervor in Jap planters, then buying up their landholdings for a song...
...Tripartite Plan for Industry devised by the Board of Trade's Sir Stafford Cripps. It would place all industries under the joint management of employers, employes, Government representatives. Employers will fight Cripps control tooth & nail...
...Security, which was to have opened in Rio on Oct. 20. The State Department explanation: the U.S. could have no dealings with the Argentine militarists whom the U.S. had welcomed back in the Hemispheric fold only seven months ago. The Latin American fear: that the Good Neighbor policy of joint action was being scrapped...
Adapted to broadcasting, it may solve the problem of how to accommodate all the crooners and soap operas which clamor to get on the air. A single P.T.M. transmitter, for instance, atop the Empire State Building, might serve as a joint outlet for most of the studios in New York City. Listeners could concentrate on a single program, or, if they wanted to take the punishment, connect their receiving set (plus a little additional equipment) with loudspeakers in different rooms, each playing a different program...