Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher William Charles Empey (Will's son), decided to keep going. Each day through World War II, the Guide appeared as usual-but the back page, where ship movements were formerly listed, was blank. Empey and his staff continued to gather up the forbidden news of ships that touched at San Francisco each day. Then the list was set, one page proof was pulled, and locked in the office safe...
...industry. Almost as fantastic as its products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including 700 physicists, twice as many as worked on the atomic bomb...
...spot where early Methodists used to gather to hear their first bishop was on the Cataloochee Trail in the Great Smoky mountains. Last week the historical-minded among southern Methodists, meeting at Lake Junaluska, N.C., sent a petition to President Truman, the Congress and the Department of the Interior. They wanted to clear, restore and officially designate a six-mile section of the Cataloochee as the "Asbury Trail," to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth, Aug. 20, 1745 of American Methodism's most famed circuit rider...
...little Trinity Chapel (Episcopal) on the Old York Road candles burned in the windows and on the altar. As people fresh from their radios and the great news of the Japanese surrender began to gather, the organ swelled out A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. There were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, two modestly dressed Quaker women, and many who had never been seen at church before...
...will use the old tools on the first models-which, in answer to frantic appeals from the nation's doctors, may be converted to special, G.E.-developed heaters for polio packs. There will be no layoffs while G.E. tries to gather its raw stocks, or hurry its sub-assemblers. For months, G.E.'s huge home laundry sales force, acting solely as expediters, has been out breaking reconversion bottlenecks...