Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pipeline is really dead, the U.S. State Department was mainly responsible for killing it. Ignoring the technical problems and the opposition of most of the U.S. oil industry, State refused to consider any concrete Government oil project until after the diplomatic generalities were over. State (plus the oil-wise Navy, which is pro-pipeline but anti-Ickes) now hopes it can achieve the pipeline's purposes without the pipeline...
First Teams. Trouble is that, with all the intramural pulling & hauling, the U.S. still has no oil-wise first team to throw into the crucial conversations with the British. It has a Cabinet-level committee newly appointed by the President-but these "preliminary and exploratory discussions" are supposed to be "on an expert technical level." And Britain's first team of "technicians" is a powerhouse, includes Britain's Secretary of the Home Security Ministry and Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade Sir William Brown, Anglo-Iranian Oil's Chairman Sir William Fraser, one of Royal Dutch...
Wingate's jungle-wise raiders had already put the Japanese in a spot by cutting their rail and river communications below Myitkyina. Stilwell's own forces had pocketed the large Jap "force farther north. The Japs, rallying every man they had, made a desperate attack on Stilwell's road block. They breached it, were thrown back in desperate fighting beyond. Then Stilwell's Chinese took the offensive, drove the Japs from their dugouts by the river bank. In the jungles, ringing with the earsplitting metallic whine of cicadas, the fighting went on for over ten days...
...Washington Representative Samuel Weiss pressed for hearings on his "Ernie Pyle bill." Correspondent Ernie Pyle, noting that flyers are paid 50% above base pay, had written a column suggesting that foot soldiers be paid extra for combat. Whether or not it was a wise or practical idea,* it was typical of growing appreciation for the infantry...
...also Government spokesman in the House, did not know. He was not consoled when Socialist Greenwood voiced the sentiment of even the most bitter Government critics: this is not "a vote against the Education Bill . . . not a vote of lack of confidence. . . ." Said nettled Anthony Eden: "We should be wise to bring this discussion to an end. . . . The Government will consult...