Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, in an atmosphere charged with self-generated urgency, the U.S. put the responsibility for all its armed forces on one Cabinet member's shoulders. (And thus, for the first time since 1913, the U.S. had a Cabinet of only nine members.) Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington were also sworn in (Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall had taken the oath nine weeks ago). Then Symington and Royall announced that they had agreed on more than 200 re-bracketings in plans to separate the Air Porce from...
...greatest admiration. "Wallace's whole theory of spending in order to reduce agricultural production," Henry wrote in his diary, "always seemed nonsense to me." Once, Morgenthau complained to Wallace that it was costing $130 million in overhead for the Agriculture Department to give away $516 million in nine months. Said Wallace: "You don't understand what we are doing." "Oh, yes I do," shot back slow-boiling Henry Morgenthau. "I understand it more every day. . . . The one that costs us more than anybody else is Wallace. My hat is off to him-he is getting away with murder...
...nine of the 20 acres, and eight tons of feed worth ?1,200, had already been plowed under. As the tractor-driver reversed his machine and drove it out of the field, he shrugged his shoulders. "I have my orders," he said...
...nine months the U.S. had had no China policy beyond indecisive hostility and righteous advice for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government. From behind the scenes came rumors that the U.S. was preparing to pull out of China and rest its Asiatic defense on Japan and the Philippine Islands. Ostensibly, the Wedemeyer report was designed to help George Marshall decide what, if anything, to do next. The choice was between aid to China or abandonment of her 400 million people to the threat of Communism...
...would also, he said, end "banker control" of Central. How? asked ICC. "Why," said Young in surprise, "our very presence would relieve it." If he liked the girl enough, after going with her eight or nine years, said Young, he might later marry her by unifying the two roads. He painted the sad plight of Central, "the finest railroad property in the richest country in the world . . . being kicked around in The Street for virtually 10? on the dollar...