Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...
...called at the White House, emerged after half an hour to report that he had offered President Truman the use of Puerto Rico as a laboratory for experiments in Point 4 aid to undeveloped areas. In succeeding days, Muñoz had long talks with Secretary of the Interior "Cap" Krug and Under Secretary Oscar Chapman. He conferred about air safety with the CAB, about dope smuggling with the Treasury's Narcotics Bureau, about his island's housing and education needs with interested Congressmen...
...slowly paralyzing Hawaiian industry (TIME, July 4). The board proposed a 14?-an-hour pay raise for Harry Bridges' striking stevedores. Reluctantly, the islands' seven struck stevedoring companies agreed to pay. In Washington, President Truman said that the striking dockworkers should accept the offer; Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug telephoned Hawaii's Acting Governor Oren Long to say that the Administration was squarely behind the proposal...
Winston Churchill seemed about to take a flyer. For the first time, he registered racing colors with Britain's Jockey Club-the required preliminary to racing one's own horses. The Churchill colors: chocolate, with pink sleeves and cap...
...These cap-and-gowners, Shirley M. Gallup, Doris B. Bennett, Martha K. Caires, Edith L. Stone, and eight other classmates last week received the first M.D. degrees ever awarded to women by Harvard Medical School. At graduation, they were the symbolical victors of a century-long battle. It was in 1847 that the first woman began trying to get into the medical school; but Harvard would have none of her, nor of any women thereafter (one reason: too many medical women graduates never bothered to practice). Finally, in 1945, when the wartime shortage of doctors had become acute, Harvard relented...