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...University gave the Clinic a second boarding house to equip for research. Connected by a corridor, these two houses look like one unit, hap-hazardly thrown together. While Clinic officials knew that their laboratory was old, they never believed it was feeble. But in 1948, a University inspector found that the wooden pillars supporting the house were rotting away...
...Franco government, for its part, did not like to surrender sovereignty over any of its own military bases. Also, Spain hoped to raise the aid ante by playing coy. (Franco's hope: that the U.S. would outfit all Spain's armed forces, and re-equip the transportation system, in return for the base rights.) Complained a Spanish diplomat: "You Americans outfit the rest of the world with wardrobes, but for us you have only a toothbrush...
...soldiers slipped out of their chute harness, jogged through town, and headed for the deep limestone caves where the rebel armies of Ho Chi Minh had cached war materiel. Taken by surprise, the Viet Minh garrison fled. Systematically, the French set to work destroying enough Communist supplies to equip two Red divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized 200 machine guns and automatic rifles, 1,000 light machine guns, six Molotov trucks, engines, machinery and a stock of penicillin. They demolished the Ky Cung...
...wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week, the 30-day trial having strung out to 61 years, Andrew Kramer, 84, resigned his post. He had served the U.S. Government longer than any employee in history...
...President has yet to fill in a few blanks. The Truman Administration's plan to build the Air Force to 143 wings was not-as Eisenhower implied-a program which was to be ready for one critical year and then done with. It was a program to equip the U.S. with air weapons for the jet age, to be ready...