Word: ant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military use fulness, struck a surprisingly rich vein : e.g., Astronomer Edward A. Fath, who turned out to be one of the foremost U.S. experts in celestial navigation; Geographer Laurence McKinley Gould, a top-notch map man and navigator who was second in command of Admiral Byrd's first Ant arctic expedition; Physicist Charles...
Coveted Bases. Among these ominous developments was held what was likely to prove one of history's most futile conversations. It took place in the warm winter mildness of Seville, between Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Portugal's Premier António de Oliveira Salazar. Doubtless they tried to solidify the one complete agreement between neutral Portugal and nonbelligerent, pro-Axis Spain. Both want to suffer as little damage as possible from the shocks and tremors of World War II. But Spain surrounds-and covets-the British fortress of Gibraltar, and Portugal's coastline...
Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor...
...Julio Dantas left Brazil. Although it was ostensibly a cultural mission, it had conferred with the Foreign Office, with the War Ministry and with President Vargas. Of more than cultural significance was a parting statement by Deputy João do Amaral, especially designated by Portugal's Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar to be a member of the mission. Said he, in effect...
...confirm the last theory Zoologist Robert E. Gregg of the University of Chicago made 33 experiments with 9,537 ants of the species Pheidole morrisi. He arranged for ant larvae to be reared to maturity under the care of soldiers only and of workers only, and found: "Where the soldier caste is present in large numbers, there is a decrease in the number of soldiers that are produced. Conversely, in pure colonies of workers an excess of soldiers tends to appear over the number which normally develop in a control colony...