Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...
...first interview with Stalin, Smith put the question bluntly: " 'How far is Russia going to go?' Looking directly at me, Stalin replied, 'We're not going much further.' " That was in 1946, before the Communists swallowed Czechoslovakia and most of China...
Then came the time when bayonets were superseded by other, blunter weapons. In a single air raid five years ago, a third of Solingen was reduced to rubble. "All we could salvage out of our ruins," recalled Junior Partner Wilhelm Lange of the cutlery firm of Wagner & Lange, "we put into a wheelbarrow." Part of the wheelbarrow's load was a steel filing case containing some recent orders...
...much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week's end it looked as though the hubbub had won his Family Group a more promising home. An art dealer offered to put the statue up for sale in his gallery...
After his famous ride, Paul Revere turned in a swindle sheet, according to Edward J. Cronin, Massachusetts secretary of state. An expense account, dated 1775, which Revere presented to the Boston Committee on Safety, was put on public exhibition last week by Cronin, who dug it out of the Commonwealth's archives. Among the items for which thrifty Revolutionary Revere asked reimbursement: carrying dispatches (at 5 shillings a day), expenses for self and horse, outlays for printing...