Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needing some background for his review, Gissen managed to arrange for the only interview Eisenhower would grant before publication date. It was to be off the record and was to last 15 minutes. When he was ushered into the general's office on the Columbia University campus, Gissen shook hands and said: "Well, general, the last time I saw you we were both covered with mud." Eisenhower wanted to know where that was and when. Gissen recalled a scene in France in November, 1944 when he and other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village...
...whose subsistence the U.N. has authorized a grant of $32 million...
...aside $2,000,000 of the grant for American, United and T.W.A., to make up losses suffered when their DC-6s were grounded in 1947 and their Constellations in 1946. In so doing, CAB established a precedent. From now on, it will reimburse the airlines for losses suffered from the grounding of new equipment by the government...
...leaves on the Federal Security Agency's vine, is little more than a great statistics bureau, and a sponsor of worthy projects. It publishes two dry-as-dust education journals, puts out bulletins on better teaching methods, worries about U.S. school enrollments. Though it handles funds for land-grant colleges, its function is more to counsel than command...
Today "Lost Horizon" and "Holiday" form the bill. The first, a screen adaptation of James Hilton's novel, stars Ronald Coleman, and deserves its recall and its reputation as an exciting adventure film. "Holiday" is a Phillip Barry show with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant handling the lead light comedy roles...