Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...later. "I did my best as G1, but my first love is G-3 [operations]. That's what the Army is all about." Almond was soon promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1949 he moved up to Chief of Staff. Subordinates noted that the promotion had its effect on Almond's temper. The genial deputy chief became a hardboiled, hard-driving chief...
...London and Paris, but they attributed his curiosity to his religious nature and his firm belief in life after death. None of them could say whether, in the privacy of his study, Mackenzie King actually tried to communicate with his dead mother or whether his spiritualist experiments had any effect upon his conduct of the country's affairs...
...pair of bicycle goggles. Clutching his package he trotted back to the field and unobtrusively made his way around to an abandoned hangar on the far side of the landing area. From the doorway of the hangar he watched for a chance to put his idea into effect...
...case, construction men everywhere scrambled to get credit under the old liberal terms. During the 24 hours before the new rule took effect, Washington builders alone swamped the Veterans Administration and the Federal Housing Authority with 14,000 applications for Government-insured credit on new houses, more than the number of houses built in the area this year...
...this has been done in the interests of security. But its effect has been just the opposite, in Gellhorn's opinion. The obsession for security and loyalty has discouraged many able people from researching for the government, be argues. Some of the men who were actually discharged later turned in significant scientific discoveries--for someone else. But, most important, the red tape which the government has strung up between scientists has stopped much of the exchange of information and ideas which has been the source of so many valuable discoveries in the past. Work must often be duplicated at different...