Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing unobtrusively in the background at the signing ceremony was the man who next day became the first permanent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Nelson Bradley. Never before had the nation given one military man a post of such responsibility and influence...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, two aged, reactionary spoilsmen, both vindictive, determined and ruthless, were waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...
...specified the destination of all U.S. arms. The Atlantic Treaty nations would get $1.16 billion worth, Greece and Turkey would get $211 million, $27.6 million more would be divided between Iran, Korea and the Philippines. Any transfer of U.S. military stocks would be subject to a veto by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Next day, before taking off for a trip to Vienna, the joint chiefs conferred with representatives of The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal. Said Admiral Denfeld: "We had a fine exchange...
Aboard an airliner winging its bumpy way over Texas one day in 1941, the pale-faced little stewardess felt too sick to serve dinner. Hustling, bustling Passenger James Kirby Dobbs, then joint owner of 46 food shops scattered through twelve states and an old hand at doing things for himself, quickly volunteered to serve. But one look at the unpalatable food made Dobbs queasy himself. Then & there he decided that he could put up better meals to serve aloft than the airlines...