Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brewster reminded his listeners that the committee first got interested in inquiring into Hughes's big flying boat back in 1942, when Harry Truman headed the committee. He recited Army and War Production Board objections to it. As for pressures to drop the inquiry, it was Hughes himself who had come to him soon after he (Brewster) had been made the committee's chairman when the Republicans reorganized Congress last January. "He [Hughes] said he wanted a hearing right now." It was Hughes who had brought up "the matter of a possible merger involving Pan American-I hadn...
...descent will be made, if all goes well, in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, some time in September. First, Professor Piccard intends to drop the unmanned bathyscaphe into the sea with a pressure-controlled instrument on board to bring it up again when it has reached a certain depth. If it rises as he expects it to do, the professor himself will take the plunge...
...after her death, rumors spread that more than $500,000 worth of the Princess' crown jewels had been stolen. Suspicious U.S. Army authorities asked the apparently uninquisitive Russians to perform an autopsy (to find out if someone had put something in Hermine's tea), then decided to drop the investigation: "It is definitely a case for the German authorities . . . looks like a dizzy merry-go-round of family intrigue...
Cadogan told the Council that unity of the Nile Valley, one of the cardinal notes in the Egyptian appeal, is a "myth." He contended that the Anglo-Egyptian 20-year pact which runs until 1956, is legally in force and that the Council should drop Egypt's charges...
...Virginia Woolf. To help forestall and dispel confusion while following his cast of "Narrators," Author Philip Toynbee provides a lettered and numbered graph (something Joyce never did for Prothalamium1's mighty ancestor, Ulysses). Given this pretentious orientation, reading Prothalamium is something like doing sums in your head: drop one character and carry...