Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review board may have found some compelling reason for reducing Use's sentence, but if it had, Army Secretary Kenneth C. Royall did not reveal it. Instead, he agreed that the evidence had proved that Use "encouraged, aided and participated" in Buchenwald's operation, but lamely justified the sentence reduction with: "There was no convincing evidence that she had selected inmates for extermination in order to secure tattooed skins, or that she possessed any articles made of human skin...
Secretary Royall was emphatic on one point: the Army's action was final. In one more year Use would be free. The Bavarian Ministry of Justice, however, announced that on her release she would be brought into a German court, "if those actions can be proved which have not been dealt with by the U.S. court." Those who still wanted to testify against Use might yet have their chance...
...clock, not nearly so big as Big Ben, but big enough to bang out the hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means have a Britisher, or at any rate someone not a Bolivian...
...funds to Cissy. Concluded the Washington Daily News: "If it was a loan, the . . . executives who inherited the paper . . . could properly enter a claim against the rest of the estate." Still missing were Porter's voluminous personal papers, which Countess Felicia Gizycka, Cissy's daughter, hoped to use in her fight to break her mother's will. Times-Herald staffers were beginning to feel like characters in a whodunit. Last week they told of a circulation hustler who was a little confused about the countesses, ex-countesses and other celebrities in the fight over the will...
Plan Big. Sennet Gilfillan thinks so much of G.C.A.'s future that he has scrapped $3,000,000 in television work to concentrate on G.C.A. He believes its greatest use will come in relieving traffic congestion at overcrowded airports and eliminating "stacking." Said he: "Ten million dollars worth of units at 50 major U.S. airports could save the airlines $40 million a year [twice what they lost in 1947] in gas bills and revenue lost in canceled flights...