Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Shut off that sun," he ordered, pointing to a newsreel floodlight. He asked Lilienthal solicitously: "It bothers you too, doesn't it?"
The Law. Bundling his divided Joint Chiefs of Staff off to Key West, Johnson laid down the law. From now on, there would be unification as the law provided -or else. Those who didn't like it could get out.
Presumably, the purpose of unification was to achieve economy and efficiency in the $15 billion-a-year armed services. But one top Administration economist, watching Louis Johnson's roughshod methods, snorted: "He's made two enemies for every dollar he's saved." In nine weeks he had...
Horses & Bourbon. Like many Virginians, Louis Johnson likes to think of himself as the descendant of a proud old plantation family. On his mother's side, he is. In the ante-bellum days the family estate near Leesville was a showplace of the state, with white mansion house, hundreds...
Ducey's only complaint about his men was that in spite of their abundant will to win they could never be persuaded to lay off cigarettes, liquor, and bad hours. Had the Eliot oarsmen concentrated on keeping in condition, they could have been undefeated. Ducey thinks.