Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long famed in Congress as a tough investigator who tracks down the facts, bulldogs them, ropes them and brings them in, Representative Albert J. Engel has brooded since 1939 about Army extravagance.* Five months ago he got in his automobile, drove 4,500 miles, snooped through 47 war plants. Last week Fact-Finder Engel reported: both war plants and labor are making too much money at the taxpayer's expense...
...work on mathematico-physical problems, Albert Einstein, no landlubber, sharpened his pencil for the Ordnance Bureau of the U.S. Navy. Without specific rank, he will be stationed at his home base, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton...
...Manhattan playhouse, at the Paramount, at the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, hundreds of little long-haired, round-faced girls in bobby socks sat transfixed. They were worshipers of one Francis Albert Sinatra, crooner extraordinary. Their idol, a gaunt young man (25), looked as if he could stand a square meal and considerable mothering. A composite picture of his idolaters' reactions to his public appearances last week...
...technological millennium that scientists have promised civilization after the war, Professor Albert Eide Parr, director of the American Museum of Natural History, believes that at last something can be done about the weather. He thinks that cities can be planned with built-in climate control...
...Died. Albert Bushnell ("Bushy") Hart, 88, venerable Harvard historian, classroom reference from coast to coast; in Cambridge, Mass. Graduated from Harvard in 1880, a teacher there for 40 years, Professor Hart took into retirement in 1926 the longest beard in the university's history.* Author and editor of over 100 volumes on U.S. history (The American Nation, Source Book of American History), he greatly admired his classmate Theodore Roosevelt, was a great authority on Geoige Washington...