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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Custodian of U.S. security, articulate exponent of the atomic age, David E. Lilienthal. Behind the curtain of AEC security measures, he is doing a job of greater importance and consequence than anyone anywhere in 1947. Applications of atomic energy in industry and medicine are more enduring contributions to progress in this or any year than forensic effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Great Man called a hireling-the custodian of U.M.W.'s building in Washington-and sent him off to deliver the message to William Green. But Bill Green was not in his office to receive John Lewis' final insult, and the messenger had to slip it under the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Proper Pitch | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Wheel In Bredasdorp, South Africa, Custodian F. Thorpe finally resigned after 30 years of conscientiously attending the clock on the local Dutch Reformed Church; the clock then let go and irresponsibly struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, yesterday recovered patent rights to his electron microscope invention seized by the Allen Property Custodian when he fled to this country from Nazi persecution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Recovers Lost Patent Rights | 10/17/1947 | See Source »

...overworked equipment custodian at the Dillon Field House wearily handed out 110 new sets of cleated shoes, shoulder pads, and moleskins yesterday as the first candidates for the House football teams passed his counter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First House Grid Drills Attract 110 Willing Aspirants | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

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