Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special dispensation of King Neptune himself, assisted by Captain Robert Lee Dennison, the initiation of pollywogs was postponed until the Missouri's return trip across the equator, so that President Truman and his staff might get into...
Vindication. In St. Louis, the staff of the local weather bureau carefully chose the date for its annual picnic, was agreeably surprised when, for the first time in four years, the picnic didn't get rained...
Within a matter of hours he had lined up his staff. He got David Noyes, former advertising executive, former adviser to WPB, out of bed in Los Angeles. "Dave," said Chuck, "we've got a job to feed the hungry. When can I expect you?" Said Dave: "On the next plane...
That old Sleeping Beauty, the Communist International,* came back to life last week. At a secret meeting "somewhere in Poland," delegates from nine European Communist Parties met to reorganize "the general staff of the world revolution." The importance of the move was highlighted by the presence of Andrei A. Zhdanov and Georgi M. Malenkov, both members of Russia's ruling Politburo and close advisers of Joseph Stalin. Other top Communist brass who attended: Rumania's Ana Pauker; Yugoslavia's Vice Premier Edward Kardelj; Poland's Vice Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka and Minister of Industry Hilary Mine; Jacques...
...only 59 passengers (the day before there had been 404); the Dover-Calais train left with 133 passengers compared with 377 the day before. The same day, the British European Airways Corp. announced that it would have to cut its Continental services and sack one-third of its staff...