Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major General Archer Lerch, USA, Provost General of the United States and National Director of the Civil Affairs Training School, will inspect the local units of that organization on Tuesday. Arriving in the morning from Washington, he will be greeted by Dean Buck and President Conant...
...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...
Last week the cautious British judged that war-scarred Cyrenaica had sufficiently settled down for His Eminence's return. For the British it would be only a slightly nerve-wearing three-week junket, during which El Senussi would inspect British reconstruction in his former homeland. But for the eminent exile it was a triumph, or a preview of triumph, done in a style almost worth "waiting 20 years...
...Hinted lightly that he may soon make a trip to inspect the beachheads in Normandy...
Said General Ike: "Doggone if I'm risking a reprimand." He polished his plate. Later he went on to inspect the kitchens...