Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General "Mike" Scanlon (also now retired), Air Forces commander in New Guinea: "I don't know why they sent him up to New Guinea; he was not an operator and everyone from the kids on up knew it."
When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary...
Seven states and 50 cities in the U.S. still put up with official movie censors, but their laws permit meddling only with such moral questions as how low can a neckline plunge.* Last spring Maryland's three censors extended their sway from decolletage to dialectics: they banned a 50...
The snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover...
Readers looking for high-level inside stuff on the war in the Pacific will not it here. General Kenney Reports is essentially a fighting man's story, the day-to-day record of jobs to be done, the planes sent up to do them, U.S. and enemy losses. But...