Word: warrantize
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...points) as of Sept. 2, 1945; if they were 38 years or over; if they were 35-37 and had a minimum of two years of honorable service. Officers, hitherto excluded from the general point system of release, will get out only if they have the following score: warrant officer, flight officer-80 points; second lieutenant to captain-85; major to colonel-100. Generals can get out if they are no longer needed...
...first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent to Moscow for the New York Times, did not like it there, was glad when the chance came to help his native England fight for its own freedom -and Austria...
...Married. Warrant Officer George Ray Tweed, 43, Navy radioman who played Robinson Crusoe for two and a half years as a fugitive on Jap-held Guam; and Dolores Kramer, 29. War Department employe; she for the first time, he for the second (he filed suit for divorce from his first wife nine days after his return); in Washington...
...deal was a five-year lease on 77% of the new plant (rental $649,806 a year), with an option on the other 23% if peacetime production should warrant it. It grooved nicely into Budd postwar plans. Budd's munition-making (8-inch shells, aerial fragmentation bombs) would go on until war contracts were filled...
...45th number of the North Briton, anonymously denounced George Ill's speech lauding the Peace of Paris - a peace Wilkes likened to the Peace of God, "because it passeth all understanding." For this attack the Government had Wilkes arrested and his house rifled on a general warrant, which violated his civil rights. Then Wilkes, against all parliamentary precedent, was not allowed to avoid prosecution by pleading parliamentary privilege. Bolting to France, he was declared an outlaw by the Government, but acclaimed a hero by the mob. "Wilkes and Liberty" became a national outcry...