Word: topnotchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus, when World War II came, Newport News was one of the few yards ready & able to turn out big carriers. Nine of them, including the Enterprise and Hornet, slid from the ways. Helping matters were 1) an apprentice system that provided a backlog of topnotch workers, and 2) an incentive-pay plan that has kept the yard free of work stoppages...
Killed in Action. Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...
...heavy-burdened Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer promised more aid to China. Hump-flown supplies have constantly increased. Means of distributing them more rapidly to front-line Chinese troops have been established through a new, topnotch supply organization. Wedemeyer began to surround himself with staff officers of a caliber not available to displaced General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell in China's earlier crises. For China's war effort, there was new life, new hope and heaven-sent weather...
Another event in London's theatrical week was the second birthday of Arsenic and Old Lace, which Producer Firth Shephard celebrated by repeating his first-night trick: at the final curtain, a slew of London's topnotch comedians (Jack Buchanan, Will Hay, et al.) file onstage to impersonate the "corpses" who had been elderberried in the cellar...
Because exhibitions as varied in content as "Art of the United Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes...