Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the...
The British last week repeated their determination to take no responsibility for ruling Palestine, or even for protecting the U.N. Commission members, after mid-May. Last week Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones warned the Security Council that after that date Palestine will probably be "disorganized, disintegrated, and even more violent...
The scientists are about to tell all that can safely be told about the vast wartime researches that led to the atom bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission announced last week that it intends to issue, within the next two years, more than 100 volumes, averaging 500 pages each.
Fair Profit. The Aviation Commission of tiny (pop.: 11,738) Columbus (Ind.) reported that the city's airport last year earned $4,225 from the sale of soybeans grown on the airfield.
In the Garden. At the Federal Communications Commission's offices in Washington, a long line formed for television licenses. Recently, twelve new applications were made in a single day. In all, 19 stations are now operating in 12 cities, and 82 have construction permits in 51 cities; 93 applications...