Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Max Oser, 65, Swiss riding master whose marriage to Mathilde McCormick hit the nation's front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland. His bride-to-be, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, daughter of Harold (harvesters) McCormick, was 16 when she announced they would marry; Oser was 44; he was suspected as a fortune hunter, and mother-in-law Edith withheld her blessing for six years after the marriage. The Osers and their two children, new 17 and 15, lived quietly in Switzerland rarely visited...
...given span. For the first time?"the very first time"?WPB considered that it had a specific, intelligible, practicable schedule of requested production, reasonably keyed to the actual production capacity of the U.S. The men in charge of war production were even able to visualize an overall, master plan for 1943?including a marked increase in the dollar-volume of aircraft, a great increase in the number of heavy, long-range bombers like those which were just beginning the U.S. air assault on German Europe...
...belated; the Army has long had a plan for global war. All that happened last week, according to these sources, was that General Marshall & staff at last let Don Nelson and a few other key civilians in on some of the end facts stemming from the Army's Master Plan. The Army's extreme reticence, up to last week, had simply been in the interests of necessary secrecy (the Army does not have a high regard for the discretion of civilian Washington). According to this explanation...
...comforting hum of power was heard last night in the spacious quarters of the Crimson Network as the master technician threw the switch which pours Cambridge current into the powerful transmitters broadcasting nightly to the seven Houses. A continued blackout of the transmitting facilities caused well informed Network circles to voice dark hints of sabotage by the newly established station...
...interview them, and send to the colleges for references, investigating them thoroughly before they are accepted." "I've always heard that they are pretty smart," said the Grouser, conceding that point. But he straightened himself, making ready for the master stroke. "how can they know anything about business?" He settled back triumphantly, content to let Miss Larsen wiggle out of that one as best she could...