Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ration Note. At the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, the specialists who remove foreign objects from digestive tracts reported a wartime boom in chicken-and fish-bones...
...American guard at the bridge she gave a note addressed to his commander...
...wounded and civilians to the U.S. side. Major General Leland S. Hobbs, commanding the U.S. 30th Division, suggested that he make his humanitarianism official by persuading the Wehrmacht commander on the other bank to surrender. Dittmar was willing to try-but not to recross the river. He sent a note across. When no answer was forthcoming, he surrendered himself and his party, which included his 16-year...
...Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready for any emergency...
...Face, New Job. To hustle reconversion along still faster, Home Front Czar Fred M. Vinson last week put an old face into a new job. He named gorilla-shouldered Robert Roy Nathan, 36, as his deputy to take the place of Major General Lucius Clay. Businessmen were quick to note the significance: General Clay was Czar Jimmy Byrnes's deputy for war production; Nathan will be Fred Vinson's deputy for reconversion. Among other duties his job will be to see that the Army does not overestimate its needs, thus postpone reconversion work...