Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...commended and congratulated upon the excellent reporting on the career and death of Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada [TIME, Nov. 18]. In comparatively few words you managed to make a real flesh-&-blood personality, a true picture, of Nevada's most famous citizen...
Deepening the present waterway from a 14-to a 27-foot minimum from the Atlantic through the Lakes would make it possible for all but battleships (which draw a minimum of 26 feet) to be built on the Lakes, once naval yards were constructed. But it would also mean deepening Lake harbors (estimated cost: by opponents, $250,000,000; by supporters, $10,000,000). Another difficulty is that for five winter months each year the Seaway is not navigable; warships completed in Lake yards during the winter would be locked in until the spring thaw. Said the New York Times...
...international president of the Union of Hotel & Restaurant Employees (of which the bartenders' union is a local), with the understanding that, as president, he would also work for the mob. Testified McLane: "He [Nitti] said he made Browne," and Gangster Nitti gave McLane to understand he could "make" him. If he refused to run for the office, it was implied that he "would be found in an alley." McLane ran, secretly passed the word to his friends in the Federation not to vote for him, and was not elected...
...speedup had its drawbacks. Graduates of the new system were not finished military pilots, actually had to have ten more weeks of training with tactical squadrons. Top-notch graduates were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph -the close-packed stream of trainers, gliding in to land and take on fresh cadets and instructors...
...independent Air Safety Board . . . they have only to point to the world safety record in air travel that was established . . . before it [the Board] was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 4. They know it can be done again by reestablishing the Air Safety Board to investigate accidents, and to make recommendations as a result of its investigations, to prevent accidents, and to make investigations into situations that may be potential crashes. ..." From Pat McCarran came a grim promise: a bill to be filed in January, re-establishing...