Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...munitions economy inside and alongside a vast bread-&-butter economy, which had to go on working. The President had given the Commission no legal power to do anything. All they could do was advise, suggest, request-no more. They did not even have a boss. Franklin Roosevelt kept that post for himself...
...that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under the watchful eye of the German Army...
Well he knew that the British had prepared a reception for his troops as hot as the man-killing sun which danced off his pith helmet. Not without a fight would the British relinquish their airport, their desert training post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles along the coast of Africa's eastern horn to Alexandria. Middle East Commander Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was handicapped by having far fewer troops than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...
Nibbling like beavers at their forest of orders, aircraft makers have had no time to experiment with new techniques. Nor could private capital be expected to back so costly an experiment. Reason: nobody knows how long the limitless defense demand for planes may last. But post-war problems do not immediately concern Defense Commissioner William Knudsen. When he came to Washington (an auto man) he counted out Henry Ford's futuristic offer of "1,000 planes a day," quickly allayed planemakers' fears that he might try to move their industry to Detroit. But last week, having watched...