Word: bushing
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Most vehement about the capricious operation of the security system was Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution and wartime chief of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. "I feel," said Bush, "that the way in which our security system is working at the present time is driving a wedge between the military and the scientific people of the country, and is doing great harm . . . The whole air of suspicion is just not such as to produce . . . the kind of ... collaboration between the mili tary men and the scientific community that we very much need...
...Manhattan last week a one-man Senate investigating committee spaded up some fresh dirt on postwar apartment projects backed by the Federal Housing Administration (TIME, July 26). Called to the stand by Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush was Lawyer Thomas Grace, who was New York State FHA director from...
Cash in Question. Senator Bush was also suspicious about large amounts of cash that the Farragut Gardens builders had paid out, called the project's lawyer, Abraham Traub, to the stand to find out who got it. Had any of the cash gone to Clyde L. Powell, former assistant FHA commissioner who resigned last April and has dodged behind the Fifth Amendment to escape testifying? Traub said that none of it had, but he could not explain who had got the money. The committee ordered him to bring in his books, but at week's end both Traub...
...dormitory improvised from the old stern-wheeler Delta King, which used to ply the tourist trade out of San Francisco. Alcan has elaborate plans for a model city (600 houses by next spring), with schools, a shopping center, streets and parkways where now there is only bush and muskeg. The plans are based on the confident expectation that the capital of the world's newest aluminum empire will some day be a city of 50,000 people...
...Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants had dropped...