Word: commandeering
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With in warships and 400 airplanes, Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, Command-er-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet fortnight ago sailed westward from San Pedro. He was going to surprise the Hawaiian Islands and try to capture them, as the opening phase of the Fleet's annual maneuvers...
...Would history be paved with good intentions of the 75th Congress? Congressmen felt twinges of fiscal uncertainty in their joints. They could see that the President's example was not so strong as his precept. Although urging them to economize and promising "to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year," he did not reduce his own net aggregate of Budget requests. The expected $418,000,000 deficit of fiscal 1938 was accounted for by a reduction of $387,000,000 in revenues and an increase of $31,000,000 in expenditures...
...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...
...June 30 of $2,557,000,000, boosting the national debt to a peak of $35,500,000,000. With revenue estimates for next year revised downward, the President contemplated a deficit for fiscal 1938 of $418,000,000. But: "I propose to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year...
...have been specially built for the convenience of Britain's aristocracy privileged to remain in the Abbey without a chance of escape for six and one-half hours. A jesting officer of the Gold Staff ordered all the cisterns to be tested together. As a workman obeyed the command, the Archbishop protested: "Tut, tut, that will never do. It's just like Niagara...