Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven days later, the U.S. quarter master at Berlin asked the U.S. quarter master at Frankfurt why the train had not arrived. Frankfurt passed the query on to British headquarters at Lüneburg. Inch by slow inch, yards of red tape unwound. Five days later came the report: the train had passed promptly through the British zone...
...Hurley had named no names, but Washington knew the men he refrained from naming. His main target was quiet John Carter Vincent, head of State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and thus Secretary Byrnes's most influential adviser on China matters. Vincent had been the go-slow opponent of the War and Navy Secretaries in their efforts to frame a stronger policy in support of Chiang Kaishek...
...stand of Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. About to retire, he pulled no punches in demanding a clear-cut U.S. world policy: the place to start, McCloy said, was China. The State Department's Far Eastern Division, headed by John Carter Vincent, still wanted to go slow. They insisted that U.S. intervention would not solve China's basic problem...
...Wilkes-Barre? As a result of the inaccessibility of airports, said the CAA, and the relatively slow cruising speed and limited range of light planes, the net time saved over the automobile on short trips would be slim. Sternly the CAA concluded: if manufacturers repeat their prewar mistake of overselling the light plane, the demand will be "washed out in a wave of disillusion...
What this meant, said Mr. Gauss, was that Sino-American business relations were on a new-and as yet largely unknown- basis. Until the new basis is clear, he warned: the U.S. should go slow in making loans lest it foster "projects which cut across lines of our own interests." Nevertheless, he concluded: the manner in which those new relations are worked out will determine how many U.S. companies will want to invest money in China. "[While] mistakes may be made . . . the climate for American participation in the development of China will be ... healthful and encouraging...