Word: taping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots. In restaurants, of all places, they found red tape as endless as spaghetti...
Exporters, as expected, were dead set against the controls. They claimed that 1) most European nations already had strict controls to prevent their dollars from being squandered, 2) the red tape would slow up European recovery by delaying the shipment of needed goods. But the Administration hinted that it may soon put still other nations under export license...
...been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing of red tape to set up the Navy's best air training program early...
...Bureau of Public Relations from 1941 to 1945; of a pulmonary ailment; in Washington. Tethered to the Pentagon after 34 years of service, mostly with tactical outfits, Old Horseman Day Surles champed at the bit all through World War II, did his creditable best with the vast, tape-tangled B.P.R., silently took the rap for many a public relations bungle by underlings and superiors...
...going while he was in prison). President Truman had commuted his 6-to-18-month sentence at the end of five months,* one month before he would have been eligible for parole. Outwardly, the only sign of Boss Curley's ordeal was a small strip of adhesive tape under his right eye, to keep him from irritating his ingrown eyelashes. His health? "I come back ten years younger," said Jim Curley...