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Word: inspectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Good added: "The inspector has concluded that criticism of the mess was warranted. . . . As to all other complaints the inspector has reached the conclusion that they are not justified by the actual facts. . . . The hospital is rendering a fine service to its patients. . . . I have brought the deficiencies of the mess to the attention of the commanding general of the hospital and have instructed him to remedy them at once. . . . I anticipate . . . an improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Poor Eggs, No Milk | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line of duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Line of Duty | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...eight people in the Banker's party (including a son, a daughter-in-law, grandchildren) were given free entry of the port because his trip had been on government business. But Banker Morgan, unaware of the honored privilege, had already declared his luggage and permitted a customs inspector to open three suitcases and examine their contents. Perhaps never had so great a banker appeared in so happy a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surprise | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Dunbar, Washington postoffice inspector, volunteered that he had tricked Mrs. Dennett into sending her pamphlet to a "Mrs. Carl A. Miles" (himself), at Grottoes, Va. An official of the Daughters of the American Revolution, he said, had urged him to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dennett Echo | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Thus, more efficiency for the B. & O., more kudos for George B. Ecker, its inspector of fuel economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Locomotives | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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