Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office of every U.S. general in SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force) in Britain last week went a neat, sealed package from Washington. Inside each package was an elegant calfskin belt with pistol holster and a big shiny buckle embossed with the U.S. seal...
India, Home Secretary, First Lord of the Admiralty, Air Secretary, Lord Privy Seal), since 1940 negotiation-minded Ambassador to Spain, was upped to Viscount by King George...
...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
...artist then drew 52 "airplane" stamps on a sheet ten inches wide, two inches long. SS-men interrupted at the plate-&-proof stage. The seal was to have been printed, they learned, on the same sort of grey-blue paper used by the U.S. Government, by the "kiss-impression" method, a light blue application of the cut which would make the outline of the eagle faint but discernible. The airplane cut would be superimposed. The completed work of art would have been so nearly exact a duplicate of a sheet of legitimate ration stamps that, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney...