Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra allowance which Congress had voted for the Air Force could wreck the internal balance of the defense family, said the President, and it might wreck the balance he had long sought between military security and the strain on the domestic economy. It wasn't so much the down payment, he went on, it was the upkeep. In succeeding years the extra planes would demand a larger & larger share of the budget as they required personnel, housekeeping and maintenance. "I am, therefore, directing the Secretary of Defense to place [the $615 million] in reserve," the President announced...
Divorced. William Veeck (rhymes with wreck), 35, canny Barnum of baseball, president of the Cleveland Indians since 1946; by Eleanor Raymond Veeck, thirtyish, onetime Ringling Bros, circus equestrienne; after almost 14 years of marriage, three children; in Tucson, Ariz...
...stand against the Russians on the Danube so that the East bank of the River and the central part of the city are terribly battered. Pock marks of the Russian chase cover the walls of buildings even in the Western outskirts. The Viennese hold everyone else responsible for the wreck. They do not yearn for another Anschluss and have no love for the Germans. But they loathe the Russians with a combined intolerance for Slavism, vengeance, and a culture less developed than their own. A Viennese girl said to me, "the Germans were bad, but at least they didn...
...photographer, the Boston Post's Morris Fineberg had covered World War I, many a fire, train wreck and disaster. Last week the city desk sent 56-year-old Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...
...chairman of the Russian research Center's economic project. Associate Professor Alexander Gerschenkrop agrees that because of the trade barriers, devaluation's overall effect on the Soviet East will be "small for the time being." But he remarked that, although Russia theoretically has been always trying to wreck the Marshall Plan, in practice she has continuously been exporting grain to western Europe, and buying some production goods in return. "Perhaps in economic policy, Russia is not so interested in discouraging western trade as we suppose...