Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Omar Bradley (Tues. 10:30 p.m., Mutual) addressing the magazine publishers' convention, in Manhattan...
...much as A.C.S. raised for all purposes in 1945. A good share of the A.C.S. research money will go to the new Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (TIME, Nov. 3). Its new, 14-story, $4,000,000 building, on Manhattan's East Side, financed by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, was formally opened by the donors one day last week...
...General Motors announced that it would lay off some 200,000 workers-more than half its total force-for at least a week, because of steel and pig-iron shortages. The motor industry, Ward's Automotive Reports said, would make about 265,000 fewer cars and trucks this quarter than expected...
...thought a hotel should be opened for business-and publicity. To 300 of the biggest wigs he could find, he sent invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...
Died. Dr. Rupert Blue, 79, onetime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1912-20), who wiped out two bubonic-plague epidemics in San Francisco by getting rid of the carriers (flea-infested rats and ground squirrels); in Charleston...