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...America. For the key post of ambassador in Caracas, President Truman last week nominated Fletcher Warren, 55, onetime ambassador to Nicaragua and Paraguay, who has served for the past year as director of the State Department's Office of South American Affairs. Like his predecessor, the veteran Norman Armour, Warren is a career diplomat and an old Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through the state university at Austin...
...knowledge of the properties of steel under high pressure is useful in determining the process of a projectile penetrating armour plate. The wire industry would also profit if the wire could be pulled in high pressures. Bridgman says that by stretching a wire "under pressure and releasing it at atmospheric pressure, material with strength greatly in excess of that normally possible at atmospheric pressure could be produced...
...Also in Fred Rentschler's class ('09): Judge Harold Medina, Samuel (Captain from Castile) Shellabarger, Publisher Wilfred J. Funk and onetime Assistant Secretary of State Norman Armour...
...warmest and liveliest of them had been written with Jean Armour and her unborn baby in mind (the baby turned out to be twins...
When Jean Armour became pregnant...