Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enduring peace requires the organization of international institutions [to] develop . . . international law, guarantee . . . international obligations . . . assure collective security by drastic limitation and continuing control of armaments, compulsory arbitration . . . adequate sanctions to enforce...
...fashioned Henry Ford has never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy-haired Eugene Turrenne Gregorie, boss of the body-design division; quiet, patient Cornelius Willett Van Ranst, who helped develop the Ford airplane motor which now powers Ford-made tanks...
...only other vessel of the group able to navigate by itself on the high seas, is 155 ft. long and can carry about 200 infantrymen in an attack. Its crew and command are similar to those of the LST; officers and men on both develop great esprit de corps, become inordinately fond of their strange craft, and look with pained incredulity on finical civilians who consider the ships something less than yare and yachtlike...
Army's Contract. To Washington and Whitehorse and Norman Wells shuttled U.S. and Canadian officials and oilmen. Finally a contract was signed by which the U.S. Army would help develop the field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
Died. Maximilian Agassiz, 77, swank grandson of the famed 19th-Century naturalist Louis Agassiz and president of both Newport's Reading Room (stag) and Clambake Club (coed); after a ten-year illness; in Newport, R.I. His father, Harvard Savant Alexander Agassiz, helped develop Calumet & Hecla copper mines, left him a fortune out of which he paid many a newsboy's way through college...