Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action, which rejected plans made last Spring for the purchase of a coin-operated automatic wash outfit to be installed in the House basement, was passed unanimously by the House Committee last Tuesday. The main reason for the change in plans, as cited by Herman, stems from the fact that the House treasury cannot stand the expense of purchasing a washer and the dryer that would also be required...
...Army football team in its first appearance here since 1942 promises to bring the largest crowd of the season to Soldiers Field next Saturday. In fact, HAA ticket manager Frank O. Lunden is expecting a sell...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...
...bulls, all this was a sign of the market's inherent strength. But there were plenty of bears around. Not in 17 years, in fact, has Wall Street been so full of them-if the number of short sales is any index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom...
...selection, however, must be left to the administrative discretion of the college presidents. I doubt that the assistance of the Massachusetts General Assembly is necessary for the survival of the free mind in our schools. I rather suspect, in fact, that our administrators are better qualified to determine a curriculum, than are our representatives at the State House. I must certainly continue to insist that attempts to legislate controls upon our schools are more dangerous than a communist here and there could hope to be. John Clardi