Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...
Cloak & Dagger. But last month, fretting lest OSS land in the postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...Hugo Ernst Windisch-Graetz, one of the biggest land holders in the area, turned up in Rome with a solution to this problem: a new sovereign state with himself as ruler. At the very least, he insisted, Yugoslavs must not be permitted to deforest any area ceded to them, lest the springs...
...Yokohama's picturesque waterfront-the one part of the city the bombs had not touched. Just off the lobby, with its pink plush and ornate carving, a bucktoothed, bespectacled Japanese girl helped a U.S. sergeant allot rooms to U.S. brass. The manager was in a managerial frenzy lest the food and service be anything less than perfect. Houseboys brought cold bottles of beer and urged U.S. officers to drink their beer, shower, and not to be late for dinner. A sign on a factory roof, said: "Three cheers for the U.S. Navy and Army...
With only six commercial television stations yet in operation-three in New York City, one each in Schenectady, Philadelphia and Chicago-the $400 to $500 cost of television receivers has worked no real hardship on the privileged U.S. public. But lest it should, Manhattan's Viewtone Co. last week said that it was ready with a set for "the average man." Viewtone, which is now making electronic devices for military use, backed its claim by displaying a small table model, with a small (4½ x 6½ in.) screen. Price: $100. Viewtone promised to go into production...