Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bissell said that an American magazine in its issue of February had reported friction between Chennault and himself and between Chennault and Liout. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding United States Forces in India, Burma and China...
...DELHI--Brig. Gen. Clayton History, commanding United States Army Air Forces in India, Burma and China, said today he believed there was no truth in reports of friction between Brig. Gen. Clairo Chennault, commanding the air army task force in China, and other officers...
There were and still are other sources of friction, dangerous as a bare nail in a shoe. General Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...
...view of the long-standing friction between Mr. Morgenthau and the members of Congress, the chances of getting anything done before March 15th, the beginning of the fiscal year, seem very poor. It looks like a race between Congress and the Treasury to see who can change the Ruml plan enough to call it their own prodigy, push it through the legislative mill, and take the credit. Looking back over the record of the Treasury's failures on Capitol Hill, it looks like easy money on Congress, a seat in the bleachers for Mr. Ruml, and a sharp jolt...
...heat, against disease, sometimes against each other-rival tribesmen assigned to the same job drew knives. Americans howled in protest when a local government tried to tax their cigarets and food. Pan Am officials wrangled with Army control officers over how to run the line. But in spite of friction, accidents, mosquitoes and soggy, yeastless bread, the men fought hard to put the route through...