Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coordinating all the complex procedures and problems, especially of G-1 (Personnel) and G-4 (Supply), where U.S. and British methods differ most widely, is Chief Administrative Officer Lieut. General Sir Humfrey Gale. His pet project: a standard ration for British and U.S. Armies which will provide the same basic foods, yet satisfy the more violent national tastes (tea for Tommies, coffee for Yanks...
...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...
Goodspeed now lives in Bel-Air, near the University of California, where he has been lecturing on his pet subject. He still clings to his habit of reading detective stories. He once wrote a readable one: Curse in the Colophon...
...Keats was once a potato factor and, while delivering a ton of potatoes, was attacked by a ferocious pet pomeranian...
...honor, West Point cadets are adept at concealing their own and their fellows' misdemeanors. Allen invariably made concealment impossible; he committed his crimes in a public glare. Once, during a drill, a puppy appeared. Under the eye of his sergeant, Allen whistled, broke ranks to kneel and pet the puppy. When the cadet adjutant responsible for posting demerits made up his lists, he automatically included the name of Allen...