Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operations in India's defense should remain under a British Commander in Chief, the Congress party wanted the Defense Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council (analogous to the U.S. Secretary of War) to be an Indian. Britain agreed to this, but proposed to take away his function as a link between the Government and the C.-in-C., giving it to the C.-in-C. himself. This would have left the Indian Defense Member holding a bag of relatively unmilitary responsibilities such as public relations, demobilization, post-war reconstruction, petroleum, canteens, stationery and printing...
Orphans of the Storm. The new State Guards have been orphans of the emergency, without central organization, without training, often without guns or even uniforms. Yet even experts agree that a home guard has a real function. A modern enemy attacking a coast lands not only on the shore, but far inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting...
...thermal" to rise. Sometimes they even fly in formation. Another man-made addition to flight skill is the complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing on its single wheel for about...
Armed with new authority to issue directives to all Government departments and agencies on news practices, OWI is responsible only to the President. How well it will function depends on Army & Navy cooperation. But an astute civilian with authority conceivably might get that cooperation...
...such model, made by students at Syracuse University, showed an Army reception center as it would normally appear from a height of 5,000 ft., with rectangular lines and shadows, and a white circular roadway clearly identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm...