Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...klieg-lighted stage, Vice Admiral R. M. Griffin, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, began the drawing. Behind him stood naval representatives of the other occupation powers, a British and a Chinese captain, a Russian rear admiral. "Lot number one," called Admiral Griffin in a crisp, clear voice. It fell to the British...
Eddie Cantor finally made the grade, though he was bringing up the rear. Coming: another biographical cinema saga-this one about the life of Eddie Cantor...
...Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, No. 1 polar explorer of the past two decades, prepared at 58 to retire from the Navy. He had a new job awaiting him as a director of a South Carolina cotton textile firm...
Froth of a Flood. Last week in New Delhi, Queen-Empress Victoria's great-grandson, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, was working hard to get out of India as fast as he could. To Hindu and Moslem politicos responsible for setting up two new dominions in India before mid-August he sent memos reminding them "only 62 more days," "only 55 more days." The British did not rely on Hindu and Moslem leaders' continuing to work together. The British wanted to clear out before India blew up in their faces...
...many-armed U.S. Government last week was engaged in a tug-of-war with itself over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...