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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Francis Scott (The Star-Spangled Banner) Key was finally about to take his place in distinguished company: Congress voted to build him a monument in Washington...
...though the 17-acre area was being rapidly leveled, U.N. still did not know just how soon it would be able to build the tall stone plinths of its permanent home. A bill to lend U.N. $65 million had finally been approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Yet U.N.'s bill stood a chance of getting lost in the shuffle of unfinished congressional business. Said James Dawson, U.N. Coordinator of Construction: "We will need every break to be ready for U.N.'s fall meeting...
Last January Marcus was back in his law practice when Haganah asked him to help build an efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...
Most of the other major planemakers got from $40 million to $70 million apiece. Lockheed will build 585 more F80 Shooting Stars and trainers, plus 82 Navy patrol planes; Republic another 409 F-84 Thunderjets; Curtiss-Wright 88 F87 multiple-jet fighters and reconnaissance planes. Despite the crash of a Flying Wing model last fortnight, Northrop got an order for 30 Wings. Douglas and Grumman walked off with the lion's share of the Navy orders, around $50 million apiece for fighters and attack planes...
Atomic Power. General Electric Co. announced that it will build an experimental atomic power plant to be completed in two to five years. In the plant G.E. hopes to use heat from atomic fission to run electric generating equipment. The builder: the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which G.E. operates for the Atomic Energy Commission. The place: a secret...