Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deny passports to Communists (who thus could not travel to Moscow for orders and advice...
SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) has 45 teams traveling through the countryside, doing the occupation's spadework, checking on its effectiveness and on Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
Would Young be able to "revolutionize" travel on the Central and "put it back on its feet" as he promised? ICC thought that whatever improvements he made in Central would not make up for the harm to other roads. Furthermore, Young's stock holdings were too small to guarantee that he could make the improvements he promised. Said ICC: C. & O. is controlled by Alleghany Corp. through an interest of only 3.34%, and Alleghany is controlled by Young through an interest of less than 1%. Young's interest in Central, "when traced down through Alleghany...
Commenting on economy plans Bingham said, "We still have not reached pre-war income, while travel and replacement costs are way up." The Jayvee teams are the logical sphere for economy, he said, because schedules for them are difficult to arrange since Yale has drastically curtailed its secondary team setup. "We are retaining them in the sports where Yale games can be arranged...
...professional quizgoer is a hardy type of radio fan spawned by giveaway programs. Some pros-a shrilly competitive breed-travel from quiz show to quiz show in packs. But most are mavericks, jealous and watchful of their fellows. All but a few are women...