Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sponsor of this striking power, in being and to be, is a man the U. S. scarcely knows: lean, articulate Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air. To say that Bob Lovett is most responsible for the Army Air Forces of today and the hopeful tomorrow would be an oversimplification. That credit would have to be divided among apostolic zealots like the late, great Brigadier General William Mitchell and many an airman still on the job-among builders, designers and a President who saw the lesson of World...
...turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
Meanwhile the enemy's aircraft ranged far & wide over the 3,000-mile girth of the Indies. Lean, weathered Major General L. H. van Oyen, commander of the N.E.I. Air Force, did not have enough planes of his own to meet him at every point. This week Washington announced that he had got something more than token help. Five U.S. bombers raided a Jap base in northern Celebes,* were speedily jumped upon by Jap interceptors. Without pursuit support, the bombers fought it out spectacularly. They reported they had knocked down nine Jap fighters. They lost two ships, brought home...
Nazi spokesmen last week announced the death from apoplexy of lean, athletic Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, 57, Commander of Germany's Sixth Army in the Ukraine, who was so stiffly Prussian that his friends said he wore his monocle in bed, but who had often extolled the Nazi cause as a great opportunity for the German Army...
...Thailand-Burma border. > A.P.'s 34-year-old Larry Allen, now back with the British Mediterranean fleet, turned in his masterpiece with the story of the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea, which he survived by a near-miracle on Dec. 16. > From Free China U.P.'s Karl Eskelund, lean, bumptious Far Eastern veteran, sent out the first report of what happened to U.S. and British newsmen in Shanghai. Correspondent Eskelund and his pretty Chinese wife Paula slipped out of Shanghai the day (Dec. 21) that Jap police started rounding up U.S. and British "foreigners." A Chinese guide led them...