Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacDonald's shelter was designed and supervised by tall, greying Allan A. Eccles, an X-ray expert in Vancouver. Working with information from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, Eccles built the shelter in ten days, and says it is "calculated to afford protection against blast, flash and gamma radiation within a reasonable distance of ground zero of an atomic bomb burst." Although Eccles does not plan to go into the business, he is willing to make his specifications available to contractors if the government approves Mrs. MacDonald's shelter. Eccles...
...four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage can't cure, and Hollywood thinks there...
...middle of a nation pursuing a faraway war in a faraway mood, a tough, hard-driving Air Force bombardment expert had tirelessly trained the Sunday punch to battle fitness. Lieut. General Curtis Emerson LeMay, commanding general of the Strategic Air Command, was leaning on no hope that the world might get better or the U.S.S.R. more reason able. His 16 air bases, strung across the nation from Puerto Rico to California-and his outposts in England, Japan and Okinawa-bristled with readiness. His officers wore their sidearms at desks, at meals and in the air; his "A.P.s" (air police...
...could be carried out only with more U.S. dollar contributions. The French delegation complained that France had not yet received a full measure of MAP aid promised her by the U.S., and that she was not sufficiently equipped to justify further expansion of her armed forces. Said one French expert: "It's not logical to expect us to make a bigger plan when we haven't yet got the material we need for our present one . . ." The French also wanted the U.S. and Britain to send more troops to the Continent; that demand was echoed by the Germans...
...essentially the same ... As long as you keep your eyes open, know what's going on and keep your nose clean, you get along all right." On such a homemade maxim, big (6 ft. 1 in.) Emil Schram has gotten along fine. He was a successful farmer, irrigation expert and president of RFC when he became president of the New York Stock Exchange...