Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When able, taciturn Brigadier General Russell Maxwell and a small staff quietly disappeared into Egypt six months ago, the public knew that they were off to establish the U.S. Military North African Mission. Since then, while uniforms of his growing staff have become a common sight on the streets of Cairo, there have been only such shreds of news as Maxwell's promotion. Says the new Major General: "I like to talk about work done, not work . . . being done...
...Navy Air Corps has lowered its requirements for enlistment. The age limit has been lowered to 18 and the 2 years college requirement has been eliminated. Men who are graduates of secondary institutions and high schools and who are desirable officer material and physically and otherwise qualified can establish mental qualifications by the satisfactory completion of an examination given by the Navy. Men interested should apply directly to the Navy Flight Board at 150 Causeway Street...
...effort to stimulate the sales of War Bonds and Stamps among undergraduates, Phillips Brooks House War Service Committee has announced plans to establish desks in each House, at which House representatives will be available to all purchasers at specified times during the week. The sales will begin on Thursday of this week...
...China might still not be altogether cut off. The U.S. is now equipping a great air-transport line, to fly war goods from India to China. The Japs were never able to ground China National Aviation Corp. by air attack. C.N.A.C.'s best pilots are helping to establish the India-China service, and they think that it can be maintained and steadily increased, unless the Japanese capture the bases at both ends...
Carleton was the first college to establish a biography department, has an excel lent astronomy department (with an observatory on the campus) and a famed department of international relations, for which President Cowling wangled $500,000 from the late Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Of Carleton's brilliant faculty, five are former college presidents...