Word: portale
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Roared angry Sir Arthur, the strategy required to defeat the Germans was minuscule compared to the strategy required at home to allow him to beat the Germans. With few kindly words for anyone (exceptions: Churchill, Eisenhower, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal), he rates the enemies of Bomber Command as: 1) the Royal Navy; 2) the British Army; 3) the German air force; 4) British civil service; 5) the politicians. After the Air Ministry under Sir Archibald Sinclair, "who went cap in hand to the other services," came the German Army and Sweden...
...hurry. Foreign Minister Molotov ("notably calm himself, he hates to see other people get excited") posed for 22 minutes. Former Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes sat statuesquely for 45 minutes before intoning: "And now, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." When Britain's wartime bomber chief, Lord Portal, appeared direct from the barber's chair, Karsh suggested they wait two weeks because a new haircut "automatically makes a photograph unfit for publication...
...jungle of portal-to-portal pay suits was suggested last week by the U.S. Department of Justice. It asked Detroit's Federal Court judge, Frank A. Picard, to dismiss the Mount Clemens Pottery Co. case (TIME...
...test suit on which portal-to-portal claims totaling almost $5 billion are based. The Justice Department argued that the "walking" time claimed by employees was "trifling." In upholding portal-to-portal principle, the Supreme Court had left it to the lower courts (in this case Judge Picard) to determine whether a claim was based on a trifling matter of time. If so, then "such trifles," said the court, "may be disregarded." The Justice Department, in effect, argued that virtually all the suits were based on such trifles and should be thrown out of court...
...pocketbook was concerned. For the Treasury ruled last week that an employer could get back in tax-rebates some 60% of all portal-to-portal claims paid. And war contractors who had been on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis could probably collect from the Government 100% of claims paid. On the basis of the suits filed so far, the Government stood to lose as much as $4 billion...