Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does the U.S., which already has 1,000,000 men overseas, need an army of 7,500,000 men, plus 650,000 officers? The tall, lean man who knows more about the U.S. Army than anybody else answered that question last week. General George Catlett Marshall said...
...with its own troubles that turned the National Association of Manufacturers' annual meeting into a gloomy near-flop last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 14). But last week N.A.M.'s new President Frederick Coolidge Crawford echoed the constructive half of Mr. Lippmann's thesis. Up to then tall, lean Frederick Crawford had been noted mainly for his spectacular rise from hot-dog-stand owner at Harvard to mile-a-minute president of Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc. His interest in political economy has been confined to loathing the New Deal...
...parents have come to lean on the Federal Government, on the city, on the schools and social workers - they've lost their own feeling of responsibility and think it's other people's job to look after them and their kids. But you can only teach respect for authority in the home. More teachers, smaller classes, supervised recreation and all that aren't the real answer...
...Chief of Staff is the unemotional genius who must translate the general's strategic visions into plans and orders that kill enemies. And being Chief of Staff to visionary General Douglas MacArthur is the job of one of the hardest-working men in the U.S. Army: quiet, lean, handsome Major General Richard K. Sutherland, whom the War Department last week rewarded with an Oak Leaf Cluster "for gallantry in action" to add to his Silver Star. His staff work at Corregidor had already won him the coveted D.S.M...
Once Upon A Honeymoon (RKO Radio). In this all-out attempt to break back into big-time production after a lean season, RKO's headmen took no chances. They brought able Author-Director-Producer Leo McCarey (Love Affair, Make Way for Tomorrow) out of two years of fruitless bondage to erratic Producer Howard Hughes. Ginger Rogers, who can pick & choose her vehicles, thought the story was too good to pass up. Gary Grant was paid a reputed $175,000 to play opposite her. Such a lustrous combination ought to have worked well, but it does not work as well...