Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a year in New York and Washington, Linen was sent overseas to inspect and coordinate O.W.I.'s outposts in the Eastern Mediterranean and India. For eight months he shuttled around among Algiers, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and New Delhi - then came home for a brief stint in O.W.I.'s Washington headquarters...
...would drastically amend or replace the U.N.O. Charter by a constitution setting up a world state with "limited but definite" powers. The chief powers: control of the atomic bomb and all other heavy weapons; the right to inspect industrial and other installations in all member countries to insure that no nation was preparing...
Even Moscow's one-way announcement of its zone's boundaries, before the U.S. and Britain had divided theirs with France, actually represented an important step toward understanding (see map). The Soviet Government flew U.S. and British correspondents from Moscow to Berlin, later let Harry Hopkins inspect Berlin on his way from Moscow to London...
Secretary Stettinius last week let newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...John Forsdyke, Director of the British Museum, and Dr. Henry Thomas. Keeper of Printed Books in the Museum, visited the University yesterday to inspect the Harvard libraries and mecums...