Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, when Kostov returned from a trade mission to Moscow, he still talked about the magnificent assistance Bulgaria could expect from her Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
...ninth mission, Chuck and his Glamourous Glennis of that day were shot down by three Messerschmitts over occupied France. After bailing out with a leg wound, he spotted an old Frenchman, chopping wood, who looked trustworthy. Chuck introduced himself in West Virginia English. The Frenchman put him in touch with the underground, which smuggled him by painful night marches over the Spanish border. Franco's Spaniards put Chuck and some pals in jail...
...just enough stars and situations to kill most of its effectiveness. The movie follows its predecessors pretty closely, detailing an Air Force General's fight against top brass and public pressure to complete a tough bombing operation. He is then kicked upstairs out of his job with the mission incomplete; his successor must make the command decision of whether or not to continue the costly operation...
Norman Collisson, 47, stocky, go-getting industrial engineer (onetime chief power engineer, American Gas & Electric Co.), was the hard-working chief of ECA's mission to Germany's Bizonia. As a Navy captain, he had a peculiar wartime job: running strikebound plants (York Safe and Lock, some 60 oil refineries) seized by the Navy. Now he was trying to tap Bizonia's vitally needed industry. "Western Europe," he said, "is like a machine that has run way down. Part needs oiling, part replacing, part overhauling. Before this machine can achieve top efficiency again, every single piece must...
...president (Rochester) on leave (also Freeport Sulphur Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.), was EGA chief in The Hague. He had come to The Netherlands at Paul Hoffman's persuasion, leaving two children in schools at home. He worked from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., running a 41-man mission, visiting plants, farms, talking with business groups, trying (as he put it) "to get four or five important things done per day, but usually settling...