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...this can be done with little likelihood of stirring up the dormant claims of half a dozen nations to pie-slices of the frozen waste. But a more innocent-looking, one-ship expedition for the American Geographical Society under Commander Finn Ronne, may touch off international fireworks. Its concerns are meteorology and mineralogy. There is probably gold under the ice cap; there might also be uranium...
...Union Committee's first meeting tomorrow evening members of the group will have to "start from scratch," according to Bradford, in "a major job of reorganizing Union activities, dormant since the beginning...
...reflected in the attitude of the Communist negotiators in Nanking. The Communists refused to participate in a five-man committee to discuss a coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They flatly declared that...
Unlike other Crimson coaches, whose main problem is to weed the most promising candidates from a wealth of material, Mikkola is this term virtually stating from scratch. Cross country has been dormant here since 1942 when the Crimson harriers climaxed a record season by downing Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet before folding up shop for the duration...
...luxury of immediate delivery, by making it a point to get by only on cheaper products through trade with more conscientious merchants, today's customers will find their coffers lined with more than cobwebs when tomorrow's sunnier hours arrive. As long as price controls are dormant, or if perchance they have already been effectually buried, the nation's buyers have only their own concerted action to guard them...