Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year old retired president and chairman of the board of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company will bring to the London post a broad background in economic and financial affairs. The new appointment is also expected to give a strong boost to the Administration's efforts to keep foreign policy bi-partisan, since Gifford is a Republican...
...speaker announced: "The first wave of the attack force is ashore," MacArthur nodded to Doyle. Then the speaker called: "All boats are ashore from the first and second waves. The troops are fanning out rapidly. No casualties so far." MacArthur lowered his head a little, and then a broad grin spread across his face. The night before, he had said we would not take more than 100 casualties on the morning objectives. Now all waves were ashore, with only 15 casualties reported...
...expected, the first order of William H. Harrison, boss of the National Production Authority, put a ceiling on business inventories to prevent hoarding of scarce materials. The broad order, issued this week, covered 32 materials, all the way from iron, steel, copper, gypsum board and industrial alcohol to burlap and nylon yarn. (Retail buyers were not affected.) Businessmen were warned not to accumulate materials "beyond what is needed for immediate production...
...journalism-school graduates were not all they should be, Editor Young wanted to know, were the liberal-arts graduates better? Most editors said that they did not care what sort of a degree a young man had. The best training was "a broad basic education with plenty of accent on literature, economics and history...
...line of blasted trees linked our area with the enemy. I knew each tree intimately, like old and hated enemies. The first, two feet of thick stump only; the next, twisted like a witch's nightmare; the third, a slender sliver in the half-light; the fourth, broad and black like soot. . . And there, against the soot, I saw him move...