Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masses of Spies? On scant (24 hours) notice the Russians last week bluntly informed the Western Powers that henceforth a new inspection policy would prevail on travel through the Soviet zone which encircles Berlin. Russian officials would board all military trains, inspect passengers and papers, pick over cargoes...
...Holland, Mich., only four hours' drive from K-F's Willow Run plant. The constant selling and reselling of the same steel sometimes gets very confusing, Golden confessed. Said he: "I recall a gentleman came up to the office and asked us to come out and inspect some steel, and we needed that type, and we went out to our own warehouse and looked at our own steel...
Then he went to inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
From Cape Horn, where González ran into stormy weekend weather, it is just three days' sail to the Graham Land outpost that the Chileans belligerently call Port Sovereignty. There this week, properly furred and parkaed, González is scheduled to go ashore, inspect the little garrison, and rechristen the base Camp Bernardo O'Higgins (after the hero of Chile's War of Independence). That would be his answer to the British, who this week sent the cruiser Nigeria steaming toward the disputed waters...
...wears overalls over his natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...