Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 29 review of Samuel Eliot Morison's New Guinea and Marianas: it might well be subtitled, "How the Navy and Marines won the war without help from the Army and Air Corps." In particular, I bridle at the mention of the 2nd and 4th Divisions storming ashore [on Saipan], etc. No mention is made of the fact that the 27th Infantry Division was called in to bail the Marines out of the mess they got themselves into . . . because they didn't have the wherewithal to secure the beachhead. The 27th was a floating reserve...
...books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could do it cheaper. The Government spends an average $625 per lot storing...
Impatient Patient. How ill was Sir Winston? Having survived front-line skirmishes and capture in the Boer War. three serious bouts with pneumonia, a collision with a New York taxicab (in 1931), not to mention most of the 20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front...
...cheery, gold-toothed Captain Jan Cwiklinski in his two-room suite below the bridge. But when Leslie went back on board two weeks later, the captain was missing. "The officers gave me to understand he was sick on shore," he said, "but . . . there was a studied avoidance of any mention...
...British ambassador, shy Sir Roger Makins, deserved special mention in dispatches from the Battle of the Red Mill. He flinched slightly when presented with a plate of lavender-pink potato salad, flinched again when a lady guest impaled him with: "You're British, aren't you? You ought to know how to do the Lambeth Walk." Afloat or ashore, England expects every man to do his duty. For the first time in a quiet but crowded life, Sir Roger Mellor Makins, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael...