Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces' Commanding General, he had fought the good fight for a separate air arm. When the fight was won, he had become the independent Air Force's first Chief of Staff. Last week, following the earlier example of Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle and others of the little group of pioneer U.S. birdmen, Tooey Spaatz retired...
...commander of the Ninth Air Force in World War II, head of Army's G-2 and later Director of Central Intelligence for all the armed forces. He was Deputy Commander of the A.A.F. before he succeeded Ira Eaker as Spaatz's vice chief of staff...
There were other items on the agenda: a new hemispheric charter, the colonies question, a joint military staff committee. But now that economic debate was knocked in the head, it began to look as though the conference could handle them all in much less time than originally planned. At week's end, some of the delegates were even talking about getting up to New York for the U.N. General Assembly's Palestine session on April 16; the more conservative guessed they would adjourn...
...March 18, the employees of the Harvard Club staged a demonstration in protest against what they considered stalling tactics by the management. At 12:55 P.M. the kitchen staff, porters, bartenders, bellboys, doormen, and cleaning staff left their posts and congregated in the locker rooms for an exhibition of solidarity. Fifteen minutes later management representatives came down to the locker rooms and informed the demonstrators that they were no longer employed by the Harvard Club. When the employees refused to leave the building, they were ejected by the police...
When the optional system was in operation before the war, a staff of eighteen was required to sort the slips signed for meals and to bill each student individually for the number of meals he ate ever his contract. Since that time, however, the check-off system has been installed which could deal with contract variations with no increase in labor cost. Record could be kept of the number of meals an individual has eaten in a given week in reference to his contract, and he could pay by coupon for those which exceeded the limit...