Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After allowing one day for recovery from that ordeal, up came the commissioning ceremony: brief (25 minutes) but effective (134 new, gold-gilt Ensigns). Most of the boys took practical advantage of the situation immediately. J. Morgan Dester appeared at the next muster in full regalia with all his stripes and complete allowance of brass fully displayed. Felix Locke reputedly spent the afternoon on the docks, looking for a little salt spray on his uniform no doubt, while others, following Lt. Beckham's subtle advice, got their saltiness directly from Cowie Hall. "Pop" Kellogg was walking down the street with...
...issued a widely-syndicated press statement: "I think some of Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks are tantamount-unwittingly so, of course-to a decided disservice to the country. . . ." In Boston, the usually aggressive Pilot was quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large families' . . . gauged solely from an economic viewpoint. [But] it is unpleasant to meet a sneer, however oblique and qualified, at 'families of twelve children...
...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...
...Major Problem. Apparently anticipating criticism of Bretton Woods in Congress, Franklin Roosevelt characterized the agreement as "the product of the best minds that 44 nations could muster." He added: "It would be a tragedy if differences of opinion on minor details should lead us to sacrifice the basic agreement achieved on the major problems...
...supplies were coming in; that was the important thing. The Chinese high command, in new headquarters at Kunming, prepared to muster its best forces: the American-trained First and Sixth Armies from India, the troops of bushy-mustached, "100-Victories" Marshal Wei Li-huang, the battle-tried formations of hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yueh. From Yünnan's high plateau these troops could look out over China's gullied lands; strike out to aid the Allies who might some day land on the coast...