Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern man's brain; it remains about the same size as that of the Neanderthal man. According to the latest theory, brainpower depends not on shape or size but on configuration of the brain surface and on the development of the cerebral cortex. Says Weidenreich: "The attempt to equip dolichocephalics as such with certain characteristic mental qualities ... is nothing but a revival of ... phrenology...
...more. Equally responsible for this national boom is the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which has helped to set up courses through which, some 300,000 students have already received a year's training. The Army Air Forces is cooperating by sending eight demonstration teams and vans full of training equip ment on a three-month tour of schools in 103 U.S. cities. The A.A.F. has already started giving millions of dollars of such equipment to schools willing to pay the cost of transportation...
...winter bog-down on the Saar front, the Third's tanks floundered in the greasy mud. Someone recommended "duck bills"-metal flanges to be welded to tank treads to give them wider grip. Patton tried to get them, "through channels," and finally got 168 duck bills- enough to equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck bills. His order was typical: work any number of hours a day the job will take-not to exceed...
...Winston Churchill packed up for a month's visit to Russian hospitals. Outstanding stop: Rostov-on-the-Don, where her Red Cross Aid to Russia fund will equip two 500-bed hospitals as memorials to united Anglo-Soviet sacrifices...
...Equip Congressional committees with experts, eliminate inactive committees, consolidate overlapping ones, create like sets of committees in both Houses...