Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Business Manager, has secured the aid of several, local agencies in the preparation of the production. Sgt. Leroy Marts, assistant director, has revealed that the initial performance will be given the evening of February 26th at the Rindge Technical High School in Cambridge. The proceeds will be used to establish a Student Welfare Fund for ASTP men of Companies...
...Security. The primary aim was to establish a "permanent zone of interest" over an arc of islands stretching from Timor to Western Samoa. The great half-circle includes New Guinea, the Solomons, the New Hebrides. The Commonwealths down under want to make sure that an enemy will never again get as close to Australia as the Japanese did in 1942. Australia and New Zealand propose to police the area within the arc, pay part of the costs of a standing force if other interested nations will collaborate. Others affected: the U.S., The Netherlands, France, Portugal, Great Britain...
Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, mighty Chicago Anglophobe, described a honey of a plan he had helped work out to defend the U.S. from invasion by the British-after World War I. He told Cleveland's City Club about a scheme "to establish a line about 40 miles long across the isthmus between Lakes Huron and Erie which would protect Detroit" from a possible army "of 300,000 regulars [from] England" which would be "landed in Canada and marched against this country." The Colonel explained that he had worked out the plan with the American General Staff. Added...
...career stretched from sailing ships to air power; in London. As a lad of 13 he was a midshipman aboard the 51-gun Newcastle, one of the last of the wooden frigates; in World War I he commanded the Adriatic squadron; in 1917 he persuaded the British Cabinet to establish the R.A.F...
...relations with the U.S.S.R., hence cannot negotiate; 3) the lack of relations is the fault of the Poles who joined the Germans in an anti-Soviet slander about the murder of Polish officers in Katyn Forest (TIME, April 26); 4) the present Polish Government clearly does not want to establish good relations with Russia. In effect, said Moscow to the U.S. and Great Britain: stay...