Word: missioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engined B-36, backbone of the Air Force's strategic bombing force. Since Louis Johnson sank the Navy's supercarrier six weeks ago (TIME, May 2), and with it the Navy's hopes for a piece of the Air Force's long-range bombing mission, the Navy has stepped up its attacks on the ability of the B-36 to carry out its mission. Armed with a secret and rambling, anonymous memo which had been prepared by a cabal of naval extremists and at least one disgruntled aircraft manufacturer, Van Zandt wanted to know...
Peter Clayton's debut to the Advocate's pages with his story, "Miss Hadley's Lover," falls flat. His account of the struggle of a middle-aged mission teacher with herself reaches the heights of feeling only in awkward spasms. In his attempts to create emotion through language Clayton loses himself in involved prose. His characters lose reality in the process...
Congratulations on your article on Japan [TIME, May 9]. It presents a vivid and wellbalanced picture of conditions as I observed them on a recent educational mission, which included Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kobe and Yokohama. I heartily concur in the praise of General MacArthur's leadership...
...pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going world prices, instead of charging all that the traffic would bear. Jim Bruce felt that his mission had begun to bear fruit...
Foote's actual career as a spy began in Switzerland in October 1938. On his first assignment, he was sent to Munich where he set himself up as an amiable tourist of independent means; his pay and expense money came to $300 (U.S.) a month. This mission consisted largely in lunching at Hitler's favorite restaurant and reporting on the Fuhrer's habits...