Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Leif John Sverdrup, his acting Chief Engineer for the Pacific Theater. The D.S.C. was lean Jack Sverdrup's reward for leading the reconnaissance and capture of Lingayen airfield on Luzon. But he had long since won greater fame for his methodically frenzied hacking of airstrips, almost overnight, out of South Pacific jungles. At war's end Jack Sverdrup went back to his St. Louis engineering firm of Sverdrup & Parcel...
...quick succession he got fat parts in Maxwell Anderson's short-lived Truckline Cafe, Katharine Cornell's production of Candida and Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born. In 1947, he found himself an overnight Broadway sensation as the brutish lout of a husband in A Streetcar Named Desire. He is still not certain that he fully "succeeded in some aspects of the part," in spite of the fact that one critic called him "our theater's most memorable young actor at his most memorable...
...Overnight the sacrosanct sixth floor of MacArthur's headquarters ceased to be the home of SCAP, Japan's military super-government, and was given over to its brother organization, the Far East Command. Down the hall from MacArthur's own office appeared a huge sign bearing the legend "War Room," and underneath, in large red letters, the word "Secret." Headquarters sections concerned with the war went into round-the-clock operations. Top staff officers worked 15-hour shifts and a colonel remarked wearily, "Some tempers are getting mighty short...
...Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
...Amarillo Globe's overnight switch was duplicated by many another U.S. newspaper last week. From New York to Los Angeles, there had not been such an impressive near-unanimity of editorial reaction since Pearl Harbor. Editorialized the Fair Dealing Nashville Tennessean: ". . . face the issue now . . ." Agreed the Republican Portland Oregonian: ". . . no choice in honor or in duty...