Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces must be geared up by mass production of planes, as they are doing abroad (see p. 18). And private utilities must be stimulated to spend $1,000,000,000 if the U. S. is to have adequate wartime power resources. Observers took all this as a tip: watch for billion-dollar Army & Navy items in the next budget...
...most important cogs-Messrs Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall, George Addes-John L. Lewis sent Mechanics Murray and Hillman to Detroit to interfere. There they persuaded Mr. Martin to let them get up on the driver's seat, one on each side of him, to watch his driving (TIME, Sept. 26). Last week, having steered U. A. W. into a garage, in privacy behind closed doors they effected the repair most needed to make it run again: put back the four vital parts Mr. Martin had thrown...
...reason why Russia showed little enthusiasm for the Czecho-slovak cause fortnight ago was that her two top-rank military heads, Defense Commissar Kliment E. Voroshilov and Vice Commissar of Defense Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, were not even in Moscow. They were over 3,000 miles away keeping a personal watch on the purge's progress in Siberia...
...first showing. Each time she sat in the same front-row seat, decked out in quaint, shabby costumes with leg-o'-mutton sleeves and feather boas. Ten years ago, when Assistant Manager William J. Reilly first noticed her regular attendance, he arranged to have her admitted early to watch the rehearsals of the stage show...
...must also remember to keep a closer watch on his Radcliffe girl. She thinks those uniforms are swell. Let there be no mutiny, young lady, lest Vag become the Wellington of your West Point Waterloo...