Word: carribbean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doud, younger sister of Army Wife Mamie Doud Eisenhower. In 1942 Moore entered the Army, rose from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, returned to civilian life in 1951 "to make money." Occupation since then: a roving man-about-business. with varied interests in Carribbean green sugar, U.S. freight airlines, a shipyard in Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, etc. Last week George Gordon Moore appeared voluntarily before the House subcommittee, made some of his financial records available, insisted convincingly that he had never used the Eisenhowers to help his business fortunes-"No. sir!" After getting...
Knipling's Machiavellian scheme was given a preliminary tryout in Florida with good results. Then last year an entomological task force invaded the Dutch island of Curacao in the Carribbean, where screw worms were strongly in possession. Supplied by air with male flies raised in Florida (on blood and horse meat) and sterilized by gamma rays from Cobalt 60, the experimenters released them on the island at the rate of 400 males a week for each square mile...