Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
...finger at Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa, one of Japan's great nests of air power and transshipment centers. The only newspaperman to accompany "the most dangerous mission ever attempted by fighters and bombers of the Fourteenth Air Force" White cabled: "Surprise and good navigation were vital to success. The mission was to be at almost suicidal level-even five minutes warning would give the Zeros enough time to take off, climb and turn to the attack. We had to come in from the sea precisely at the coastal airdrome-an error of two degrees, a miss by ten miles...
Tougher Hide. But with further success, the joy in success abated. Today, at 39, Hart is no caviar-for-breakfast fellow, but a pretty sober citizen. His chief indulgence is his farm, now more arboreal than ever. Tall, dark and glittering, with Mephistophelean eyebrows and Biblical eyes, for six years he has been going to a psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still...
...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...
...Youth," a brand of capsules which he peddled (at $5 for a month's supply) through ads in Beauty and Health News, a "bimonthly" that came out whenever he got around to it. Sample quote: "A lovely breast is like a melody. . . . Woman's happiness, popularity and success are largely due to the beauty of her breasts." The U.S. District Attorney charged that "the product was misrepresented in that the name suggested it was efficacious to cure underdeveloped, atrophied, flabby and pendulous breasts and . . . to develop the firm, well-developed breasts of youth." An abashed user...