Word: establish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps's two previous examinations (in August and November) about 60% failed. Most flunked on mathematics, especially trigonometry: many could have passed if they had taken the trouble to bone up beforehand. Federal Security Administrator Paul McNutt last week had arranged to establish free cram schools for prospective cadets. And the Army offered all comers a pamphlet telling what texts to read, how to get in the Air Corps without going to college first...
...still being held by the Italians, a great crowd of Moslems waited to make a triumphal entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect. Their leader, Seyyid Idris el Senussi, was all set to re-establish an independent Senussi State under British protection. But here, and also in northern Libya, Sir Archibald and the General Officer Commander in Chief in Egypt Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson were faced with an administrative problem as ticklish as that of Palestine. They had to decide whether...
...McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
...cause that has no more connection with the future of America than the condition of the Martians on the planets beyond an astronomer's ken. . . . The continent of Europe is finished-westward will the course of empire make its way. All the efforts that we make to re-establish a past condition in continental Europe will be falsified under the very hydraulic law of history. Europe is finished-every historian knows that in his heart." Same day that Bishop...
Last week's legal action followed reports that the gold, by German demand on Vichy, was being shipped by airplane from Dakar to Marseille for delivery to the Nazis. Aim of the suit (which had the tacit support of Washington): to establish that if the Belgian gold goes to Germany, France will have to make gold from its own gold (estimated at $500,000,000) "frozen" in the U.S. by Washington decree...