Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five leading West German industrialists left today on a six-week good will mission to Far Eastern countries. Tomorrow, Alfred Krupp, head of the vast Ruhr concern, departs for a tour of India, Pakistan, Thailand, and Egypt...
Mindful of his mission, Gruenther lets no group that might influence opinion pass through Paris unnoticed. Whatever the group, he whips off a G-gram demanding information. ("I should like to know more about that Machine Tool Association whom we are briefing on Friday. What are some of their problems?") By the time he has to speak, he knows that the group comprises 29 manufacturers from eight countries, is highly interested in developing and adapting standardized equipment for NATO needs, and that he can warmly commend them on their interest. With such a preface, he swings into his discussion...
...opinion, I have always served my country with the same vigor ... to orient the country toward work." He visited Hitler in 1938, returned with a case of Führerism. When the Wehrmacht swept across France, Renault was in the U.S. as a member of an Allied purchasing mission. He returned home to put his factories at the service of Vichy and the Nazis, in four years made 34,232 vehicles for the Nazis. When a friend chided him for making money in the process, Renault snapped: "Well, do you want me to lose?" And he liked to argue that...
...distant future. "We must put more time and money," he says, "into the development of these birds. Missiles are another step in the evolution of war. We will use them as we get them, and we will get them when they are effective and reliable." LeMay's mission is to be ready for instant, effective action. He wants a continuous supply of weapons that will make such action possible, including lesser missiles than the ICBM...
...Poujadists hope to enlist the support of the student League for Reaction, and the student Monarchists, and the student Apathy League to their cause, under the leadership of James Cronin, local merchant, and to move into the national political arena behind Governor J. Bracken Lee of Utah when their mission here is accomplished...