Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Groton. Secretary Acheson can be expected to add new life to Jimmy Byrnes's department. The son of an Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, he went to Groton and Yale (1915), was an ensign in World War I, took his law degree at Harvard. An honor graduate, he was snapped up by the late, great Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis as secretary, soon went on to a potent Washington law firm (Covington, Burling & Rublee...
Telegraphic Ornaments. The Board of War Communications resurrected a pre-war U.S. institution, the singing telegram, and hastened to add that this amenity would not be allowed to confuse the nation's serious business. Also back: congratulatory telegrams. Still missing: such Western Union innovations as shopping and messenger service, sale of traveler's checks, and acceptance of express packages...
...French press last week lashed out in a rage at the failure to add France to the three nations which held the secret-an insult to French science. More galling was the realization that inclusion in the group would have restored France to the front rank of the powers...
...spent on an Institute building ; the rest will provide an operating income of $200.000 a year for ten years. Donor Sloan hopes that others will contribute more money for running expenses - an annual income of $500,000 would just about do the trick. (Meanwhile New York City will add a $1.500,000, 300-bed unit, the Dr. James Ewing Hospital, to the Memorial center. And Memorial itself is planning a campaign to raise $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 for equipment and other needs...
...postwar home will be thoroughly wired for sound. To the radio and phonograph, wartime inventors have promised to add wire recorders and tape recorders. Last week a new sound recorder turned up-a slow-motion phonograph that plays for hours & hours without changing records...