Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still-secret N.D.R.C., he was trying to use the same dwindling stocks of gasoline and construction steel (base materials for the synthetic rubber program) for the production of the bomb. At a later crisis, Bush and Conant were called in by the Army to iron out development kinks postponing the day when the first bomb would be assembled. It was inevitable that Conant would be criticized by those who disagreed with the policies resulting from these decisions. He has been criticized, both privately...
Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes during the war because of teacher shortages. Announcing that the girls will stay on in peacetime, Harvard beat the coed devil around the bush by calling this "joint instruction...
Reconversion. Gone-according to Sam Zemurray-are the reckless, nomadic days of banana planting when United Fruit used to rip out railway tracks from diseased plantations, leaving laborers to shift for themselves in the jungle. Now, rather than let its wartime abacá acreage go back to bush, United Fruit plans to let laborers have the land (which it got for little or nothing) and raise abacá as a peacetime "peasant crop." In 1944 the company opened an agricultural school at El Zamorano, Honduras, to train scientific dirt farmers free of charge...
...worked out the tunes between extractions and impactions and while "waiting for the Novocain to work." Several of Old Grad Boland's songs have sold well (The Gypsy in My Soul and I Live the Life I Love in 1937; Stop Beatin' 'Round the Mulberry Bush in 1939). He is considering several offers to turn Tin Pan Alley pro, but dentistry pays him too well. "Someone else will have to make up my mind," says Dr. Boland. "It's a hell of a spot...
...London doctors last month warned industrial scientists that they were playing with fire; OSRD's Vannevar Bush also warned a House committee that amateur attic experiments with radioactive energy might "sterilize, perhaps, all the passers...