Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operated on the premise that entertainment for servicemen was not only "desirable but essential." He had a big job recruiting entertainers, who were leary of the hardships and pay (the U.S.O., which is subsidized by the National War Fund, pays run-of-the-mill entertainers $100 a week, topflight volunteers $10 a day). But by hook & crook, Lastfogel rounded up thousands of smalltime entertainers. These troupers, formed into small variety companies, were (and still are) the backbone of U.S.O.-Camp Shows...
...fill a troublesome spot on the Surplus Property Board, Harry Truman once again reached out to Missouri. He got set to call in 43-year-old W. Stuart Symington Ill, president of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., and a topflight U.S. industrialist...
Obviously G.M. was in the banking business for a good long stay; fortunately it had called in a topflight banker to nurse the depression baby...
...tool for arbitration will be the 20-man board which is being set up to implement the charter. On it are such topflight businessmen as Henry J. Kaiser, Studebaker's and C.E.D.'s Paul Hoffman, and such labor leaders as P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O.-U.A.W.'s President R. J. Thomas, and A.F. of L. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany...
...artillery had been battle-proved as topflight; its grenades were at least as good as the Germans', probably better; its rolling stock, from jeeps to tank carriers, was better than any other army could hope to have. On total score, the U.S. Army was far out in front in quantity, quality and variety of weapons...