Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered in 1839. The football team opened its season with a 44-0 defeat of Bates, and prospects were fine for a continuation of the tradition of victories piled up during the Haughton regime. Prospective members of Harvard's many clubs were startled by the announcement of a major overhaul of the club system, which deferred canvassing until the opening of College in the student's Sophomore year...
...prevent voluntary self-censorship from making such a thing happen again (TIME, Feb. 17), able George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, had already laid his plans. Last week he completed a thoroughgoing overhaul of his press section, gave it a rank and standing it had never had before. As its new head he appointed one of his crack officers: natty, cosmopolitan Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson. Taken from command of the First Cavalry Division, West Pointer Richardson was sorry to leave his beloved horses, but he knew that the new job was more important. And with a Major General...
...fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila there are no adequate facilities for overhaul of cruisers and battleships...
...Italian bombers, flying at great altitude from the Dodecanese Islands, giving the British bases at Cyprus a wide berth, dumped 50 bombs on the Haifa oil terminal and refinery, started fires which burned for days afterward. British pursuit ships from a base on Mt. Carmel were too late to overhaul the hit-&-run Italians...
...that is not likely to satisfy Franklin Roosevelt, who has supported measures calling for $10,000,000,000 of new expenditures in the last two months and is resolved to make no war millionaires. Best hope for businessmen last week: that he would give his Treasury experts time to overhaul all sources of revenue, devise a new tax structure that would both raise money and encourage production...