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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts. First, since Pearl Harbor approximately 60,000 members of the armed forces have attended Army and Navy schools here at Harvard. Second, as many as, 1,000 men and women have been engaged full time in the war research activities carried on by the University under contract with the United States Government. Physicists, chemists, engineers, and technical men from other universities and from industry have been mobilized under our management for several different enterprises. These figures illustrate the magnitude of some of our undertakings...
...General Huang Yao, Colonel Pao Yunfei. Liang was convicted of "stealing military materials and of squeeze and extortion." Huang was convicted of receiving 4,100,000 Chinese dollars ($205,000 official rate) rake-off in purchasing military supplies. Pao had made 1,400,000 Chinese dollars from a building contract. All three were shot...
...Open negotiations to buy Cuba's and Puerto Rico's 1946 crops at once. (Reluctantly the U.S. has raised the price of raw Cuban sugar from 2.65? a lb. to 3.1? and probably will have to go higher, but it is just as important to make the contract before planting instead of just before the harvest, as has been done...
...since been commissioned and promoted to the rank of Lientenant Colonel, in which capacity he acted as a representative of the War Department in Congress at the time of the passage of the Contract Settlement Act. Previously he had worked with Judge John J. Parker on the American Bar Association Committee for the reform of civil procedure...
...Overland is least worried about reconverting. Willys' chairman, shrewd Ward Murphey Canaday, will switch production to a slightly modified version of the wartime jeep. Canaday is enthusiastic about the market for jeeps on the 6 million U.S. farms. The export markets look good, too. Canaday has signed one contract with a South American importer for 5,000 postwar jeeps. He has letters from 6,000 U.S. servicemen who have fervently announced they want to become jeep distributors when they get home...