Word: select
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearings before the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy, Army leaders plumped solidly for a thorough reorganization of the national military setup. The basic plan: merger of the War and Navy Departments into a single department of the armed forces...
...friendship of the French people toward America has suffered considerable deterioration this week as it has become known in Algiers that President Roosevelt intends to leave it to General Dwight D. Eisenhower to select the French political groups with whom to cooperate after liberation of French soil...
...heavy-jawed, hot-tempered, producer-squeezing, multimillionaire cinemactors' agent; of abdominal hemorrhages; in Santa Monica, Calif. Schoolboys Myron and David Selznick got $1,000-a-week allowances from their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring up to the $23,000,000 Select Pictures Corp. The brothers later made their own film fortune, separated in 1929 when Myron began his rise to key power as filmdom's No. 1 talent-broker...
...Architectural Review, Britain's No. 1 architectural magazine, recently declared that the ruins of Britain's bombed churches are more eloquent war monuments than any that could be dreamed up after the war. It proposed to select from the country's 4,000 blitzed churches a few in London and other British cities "to remain with us as ruins, essentially in the state in which bombing has left them...
...late autumn of 1941 a select group of British naval men, volunteers for a mission of danger and hardship, proceeded to a lonely country house and began a strange program of training...