Word: liaisoning
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...enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number of squadrons, types of planes, nature of escort...
...nothing of his mission, for he is to lead the second A.E.F., advance guard in the Battle of the Pacific. At the beginning of this year, Chiang Kaishek, anticipating American aid (TIME, June 30), had requested that the U.S. send him a personal adviser and liaison man. The man would have all the mysterious dignities and influences of the legendary Australian, William Henry Donald, for a generation adviser to the Chinese great. (Donald left last year, is rumored on his way back.) Franklin Roosevelt selected his friend, Owen Lattimore...
Over all the Army and Navy Munitions Board stood, exercising military priority rights. And at the President's side Harry Hopkins worked as liaison man with the British, again affecting priorities. In the background stood Bernard M. Baruch, the single chief of priorities in World War I, warning with the voice of experience that single control was essential if the U.S. is to be successfully armed...
...Coast Guard boarding parties, working in perfect liaison with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, struck suddenly and efficiently in 17 U. S. ports, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cristobal, Canal Zone. Seized were 28 Italian, two German, 36 Danish ships; total tonnage: 300,000. Twenty of the Italian ships, it was found, had been "put completely out of action." Rods and shafts had been cut with acetylene torches, engines and equipment wrecked with sledge hammers, bearings chiseled, bulwarks pried down with crowbars, boilers burned out, movable equipment dismantled. At Norfolk the blue-jacketed guardsmen caught one Italian...
...have therefore to think of the brain as an organ of liaison between energy and mind, but not as a converter of energy into mind or vice versa...