Word: unraveler
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...more steps were taken last week to unravel the Pacific command situation. Army air forces on Okinawa and other Ryukyu bases were transferred from the command of Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur...
...Schoolboys. Forrestal unveiled for the first time a committee of businessmen who have been helping the Navy to unravel its problems. Committee heads are Thomas P. Archer, yachting enthusiast and vice president of General Motors; George Wheeler Wolf, Naval Academy graduate and president of U.S. Steel Export Co. The Archer-Wolf group surveyed the whole logistics field, functioned in the Navy Department as efficiency experts...
...London studio, TIME Correspondents Dennis Scanlan and Hans Kahle listened intently to a recording of Adolf Hitler's New Year's speech. Certain phrases they played over & over, or compared with similar phrases in recordings of other Hitler speeches. They were sleuthing in sound, trying to unravel a mystery that had the British press agog: was this New Year's orator really Adolf Hitler...
This is one mystery that keeps you guessing, not only about who did it but about what the crime was. Detective Andrews shows a fine knowledge of everything from cheap Scotch whiskey to "Brooklyn dames" as he uses clues that would have stumped Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mess and corral the miss...
Houlton was no isolated case. All German POW camps in the U.S. have collected Russians. The only thing camp officials could do was what they were doing: hang onto the Russians and leave it to the State Department to unravel the tangle of international relations...