Word: superintending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week. It was not yet the vast movement that will shift the bulk of General Eisenhower's fighting men to the Pacific and the command of General MacArthur. But it was far enough along to require the full-time attention of a major general. The man assigned to superintend the greatest moving day in history was dapper, schoolmasterish Major General Royal B. Lord of the Corps of Engineers...
There had been no bubonic plague in Changteh for ten generations, but within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the plague got its name, the hugely swollen lymph glands of the groin and armpits. Careful laboratory tests confirmed the autopsy findings...
...from Hollywood within a year 100 reels, for which it may eventually spend up to $5,000,000. Chairman Freeman drafted kinetic little Darryl Zanuck to boss production, Frank Capra to direct directors, Edward Arnold to handle actors, Sheridan Gibney to watch writers, Fox's Alfred Newman to superintend music. Under this imposing superstructure, whose services go free, the industry's younger, less expensive workmen will labor for pay in cooperation with the Army's Signal Corps to turn out the product...
...anything in Washington was clear last week, it was that Franklin Roosevelt proposes to superintend the harnessing of U. S. industry to Rearmament (see above). To help him in that job, he chose six men and a woman teacher whose backgrounds are as varied as their task is huge. To a business-conscious U. S., businessmen are reassuring, and the President had named three first-rate captains of industry: i) huge, grey-blond Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, 61, Danish immigrant boy who graduated from shipyard riveting to the presidency of General Motors Corp., a ponderous, accented, self-made...