Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When some further emergency forces the President of the United States to act as seriously as he talks, and to establish a War Policy Board whose only function is to checkmate the might of Hitler's Germany with every resource of brain, heart and hand that America possesses, we may then possibly see ... not only . . . how we are to win our gigantic battle but what we shall do with the fruits of peace and plenty which it will finally bring...
...regards money-making as no bar to respectable publishing. Last week he broke with PM's ad-less tradition by selling space in Parade's Tennessean section to the Nashville Gas & Heating Co. Later, if present progress continues, he plans a fat ad budget. He continues to function as efficiency expert, selling ideas to a soap and a steel company. But he shows no inclination to retire as editor of Parade, no matter if it makes a million...
Planned for months, the Support Commands clearly showed Air Forces' recognition of its dual function: 1) operation as a separate striking force; 2) operation with the land forces as aerial cavalry (reconnaissance), infantry (machine-gun attack) and artillery (bombing...
...such signs the U.S. public learned last week that the newest section of The U.S. Army Air Forces-the Ferrying Command-had started to function. It was furiously busy clearing the pile-up of completed bombers for Britain that had clogged aircraft-factory parking areas. The Ferrying Command, organized only a month ago, had lost its first men. But that was an expected incident. More important, it was delivering ships-to the Atlantic seaboard for shipment by sea, to Canada for flying across the North Atlantic...
Around Howlin' Mad to right & left, the landing party suddenly blossomed out of the dark, hunchbacked in packs, round-topped in steel helmets. Battalion officers rapped out orders for the landing party to switch its function, defend the beach. The receding rumble of boat engines told them that the Navy crews were going back for more men. Just ahead of General Smith one Navy coxswain, grounded on a bar, called for all the power his engines could give, wrenched the boat free. "God-damit," shouted Howlin' Mad, "he's tearing the guts out of that boat...