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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report went down through the aircraft division to the Lockheed patrol plane desk officer, headed through the airborne equipment division until in the aircraft systems design section it found a man who specialized in nothing but wipers. A copy went through the P2V maintenance section of the airframes structures unit of the aircraft maintenance division. Final action will be taken by an officer in the design of cabin and cockpit enclosures section, after he gets authorization from the budget section to pay for a modification. Six months after the original complaint, the squadron can hope to get windshield wipers that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The House of Brass | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Full Quota. At Camp Strong, Japan, after he received a recruiting folder informing him that he would win a medal if he could sign up a few men for a state militia unit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 45th Division Sergeant Gene Evans wrote back that he had signed up his whole company (mostly from Tulsa), was awaiting transfer orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...testimony-sometimes bold, sometimes tentative, frequently inconclusive. A staff officer most of his life, Wedemeyer is a classic specimen of what the Army calls a Brain, an officer who is on speaking terms with history, economics and geopolitics, as well as with smaller military subjects. Every important Army unit needs a Brain almost as much as it needs a CO. Try though he did to become a tactical commander, Wedemeyer had devoted his army service to being a staff officer; eventually he got to be one of the biggest in the Army (between October 1948 and August 1949, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Brain | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...Foreign Office's American section and both men had served in the British embassy in Washington; they had access to plenty of confidential information which the Russians would be glad to get. Last week, London's Whitehall buzzed with rumors that the British counter-espionage unit, M.I.-5, was putting all Foreign Service men through a new and tighter security check, looking for traces of Communist sympathies or of homosexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Infection from the Enemy | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...student of the law today, one of the most remarkable products of the movement which brought the United Nations into being is the idea that, in the interests of world peace, the world union must concern itself not merely with the rights of each nation as a political unit but must also take cognizance of the human rights of individuals within each unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement Part Excerpts | 6/21/1951 | See Source »

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