Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...Cominform sent out another new message: all Communists should help set up forthwith a sweeping united front for "peace," cooperating with nearly all elements of the people, "regardless of politics."* A significant overtone gave a clue to what most worried the Cominform in the West: "Special attention should be given to the masses of Catholic workers and their organizations, bearing in mind that religious convictions do not constitute a bar to the unity of workers, especially when such unity is required to save peace...
...only way a coach could ever get a squad to play the same basic type of game would be to scout hundreds of candidates, looking for similarity of style. So Coach Barnaby has sensibly resolved to bring out the individual talent in each man rather than to impose a special game upon the player. On the Barnaby team, each man plays according to his own bent...
Chauncey Depew Steele, Jr., manager of the Hotel Continental, and Charles O. Foss, assistant manager of the Vendome, both said they would give "special consideration" to football men, but they, too, regretted they had but a small number of positions to offer...
Boston Post Office Department officials today released a notice urging the public to mail their Christmas cards and packages early this year. Special days have been set aside for handling mail to various areas of the country...