Word: selectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue-eyed, blue-blooded Miss Cutting recommended "a boy and a half to a girl if a dinner dance, and two to one if a supper dance," kept a famed blue book of 2,000 acceptable young men (Miss Cutting's List), admitted only 100 debutantes to her select list each season. Overseer at hundreds of social functions, she arranged the Joseph E. Davies-Marjorie Post Hutton wedding, the Ritz-Carlton reception for Queen Marie of Rumania...
...made available to all manufacturers who have no unfilled war contracts and are not located in a critical manpower area. Said he: "The experience of the past does not indicate that Government agencies, staffed with dollar-a-year men from industry, have either the experience or the ability to select from tens of thousands of manufacturers those who are to be permitted to produce, and from thousands of items, those which are to be produced. The decisions that would have to be made are too numerous, complex and interlocking, and there is too much scope for bias and prejudice." Five...
...Washington the U.S. Navy Chaplains Office announced that it will shortly select two Negro clergymen (from applications coming in daily) to be the Navy's first Negro chaplains. Like other Navy chaplains, their age will determine their commissions: if under 38 they will be lieutenants, junior grade; if over 38, full lieutenants. In World War I the U.S. Army had 57 Negro chaplains: today, there are over 300 in service...
...Prime Minister Churchill to select a committee whose postwar job will be to restore works of art looted by the Nazis...
...station, the Mild & Bitter, had just made history: she was back from her 100th combat mission. Sergeant Stuart, her crew chief, had sweated out every one of the 100 for her; now he would check her over and get her ready for Mission 101. Mild & Bitter thus joined the select company of famed warplanes of World War II-planes like the embattled Fortresses Memphis Belle and Hell's Angels, and the R.A.F.'s Lancaster S for Sugar...