Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project, suggested in TIME'S recent cover story (April 3, see cut) on Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the war-born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...
...Department of Agriculture had begun to experiment with DDT, got such sensational results that the Surgeon General's office and Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD launched a full-scale investigation, soon uncovered DDT's immense military possibilities...
Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...rationed English friends. He listens to the radio's news, scans the Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed bush jacket with the Field Marshal's insignia, and is off in his Daimler for another meeting of the Dominion Prime Ministers...