Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to build a bonfire on Massachusetts Avenue, better think twice before applying the match. There's a law against...
...House Armed Services Committee drafted a selective service bill which, in the next two years, would build up a force close to a quarter of a million more than Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had asked for. The draftable age group: 19 to 25. They would be used as 1) replacements, 2) to build the services up to a total of 1,944,000 men. They would be drafted for two years...
Universal military training was not included in the bill. U.M.T. appeared to be dead. Many Congressmen had become convinced that U.M.T. is a good way to build up military strength in "normal peacetime," but that in a crisis selective service is the only quick way to get a larger Army. They preferred to spend the money on an expanded Air Force, and raise it from 55 to 70 groups...
Blood & Baldness. Blood was also on the mind of Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He measured the blood volume of 53 medical students (by injecting dye into their veins) and compared it with their general body-build. The plump, rounded subjects (endomorphs) and the slender, delicate ones (ectomorphs) had less blood compared to weight than the mesomorphs, or husky, athletic types. Conclusion: if you have lots of muscle, you probably have lots of blood...
...short distance east of the old Roosevelt mansion at Hyde Park, is on an 842-acre tract which the partners bought from the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate last year for $85,000. The building, an old remodeled white farmhouse, has rooms for 44 guests, can accommodate 100 diners at a time. Next year the Roosevelts hope to build a much bigger place modeled after F.D.R.'s stone "hideaway house" at Hyde Park...