Word: armours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Clement Dunn, 60, U.S. Ambassador to Italy since 1946. Slim, impeccably tailored, a conservative, wealthy man (his wife is the former Mary Armour of the meat-packing clan), he has been in the State Department for 33 years, has served as assistant to three Secretaries of State, as chief of the Division of European Affairs. Born in Newark, N.J., he became a practicing architect before entering the State Department as a clerk. Dunn's main job has been to keep Italy from falling under Communist control, by cajoling, chivying and maneuvering the. Italian government, without laying himself open...
...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...
...cattle on the ranges v. 1945's alltime peak of 85,573,000. Yet, because of OPS snarls, 10% fewer cattle are now being slaughtered than last year. And despite record meat prices, packers, who traditionally make only 1? on every $1 of sales, can hardly break even (Armour lost $1,600,000 in its latest quarter...
...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...