Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bahamas form a long archipelago, and Mariguana Island, where the Navy will have a base, is 375 miles from Nassau. The exact nature of the base has not been decided. Only at Trinidad, perhaps a major spot in the defense, had no site for a U. S. base been agreed...
Straightway the exultant Greeks hopped into captured tanks to chase the retreating Italians up the road to Pogradec, where Italian General Ubaldo Soddu, after cashiering some 50 senior officers, tried to form a secondary defense line. Another Greek pursuit column harried the Italian retreat toward Moskopole ("Perfumed City"). Greek and British warplanes bombed and machine-gunned long columns of dejected Blackshirts and Alpini, whose welfare was further menaced by mutinous Albanian battalions in their very midst, by Albanian snipers, knife-men, rock-rollers and bridge-blasters in the gorges and ravines along...
This week U. S. Business, long a whole sale foe of the New Deal, put its feelings in particular form. They were not all black. Ignoring That Man, the managers of U. S. industry told which of his measures they liked, which they disliked. If businessmen and New Dealers are to cooperate more closely in Term III than in Terms I & II, the views expressed by businessmen this week were a good basis for a practical agenda...
...medium for expression of these opinions was FORTUNE'S third Forum of Executive Opinion. Two years aborning, this Forum gave U. S. business management the first sounding board against which its total voice could be heard (TIME. Sept. 2). For it FORTUNE persuaded some 15,000 executives to form a permanent panel. Invited were : 1 ) presidents of all firms rated AA1 by Dun & Bradstreet, 2) directors of the biggest 750 U. S. corporations (which own 52% of all corporate assets), 3) all businessmen whose salaries indicated clearly that they play an important part in management. The third installment...
...glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...