Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather. One of the stations was found and destroyed, its three-man crew captured...
Between leaving Harvard in 1890 with his crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
University of Oklahoma's new President Joseph A. Brandt announced that he would establish a curfew for men students (women already have one), said he hoped to give professors less work so they could have more ideas...
...more critical an opposition becomes, the more tolerance should be extended. In reality, however, we find that exactly the opposite is true; and this fact seems to prove the isolated nature of Harvard. Sam Adams did not build a revolution out of tolerance, and the CIO did not establish a Ford local by deferring to the rationalizations of a strong-arm Service Department. Even teachers, when they have emerged from the academic dust, can be tolerant. Note the abrupt action of the conservative leadership of the American Federation of Teachers when three progressive locals had become strong enough to threaten...
...town of Grafton Center was naturally pleased with PBH's offer to establish a work camp there, for the restoration of the dam and pond would mean increased real estate and perhaps industrial, business there, on a small scale at least. The town fathers there fore appropriated $1200 to pay for the cost of material. The remaining costs of the project, totalling a little less than $1000, were taken care of by PBH! American Defense, Harvard Group, and the participating students themselves...