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There was nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...moral objectors were already out in the open. They were labor leaders, church leaders, many educators (but not all), Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin, Physicist Albert Einstein, and such groups as the National Council Against Conscription. The council, in a pamphlet endorsed by Einstein, argued that U.M.T. would further a military influence which they saw already creeping into too many phases of U.S. life, including even the Boy Scouts of America. U.M.T., they argued, ran counter to the nation's traditions and expressed ideals. U.M.T. would be interpreted by the world as a warlike threat...
Colorado College, founded by a Union general, last week also reached for a West Pointer instead of a scholar. Its new head: lean, weather-beaten Major General William Hanson Gill, 61, who rebuilt the shattered 32nd Division after the Buna campaign, led it back to Leyte (TIME, Dec. 4,1944), defeated General Yamashita...
William C. Becker, Robert H. Brink, Jr., David C. Brisk, Jr., David A. Brockway, Rodman F. Duane, Charles M. Fosgate, Jr., George A. Furness, Jr., DeWitt S. Goodman, Raymond Grew, Thomas W. Grossman, Richard B. Hanson, Sherrill H. Houston, Ralph W. Judd, Edward R. Kane, Robert H. Knox, Frederick B. Oppelgate, Frederick A. Parker, Jr., Thomas L. Regan, Jr., Stephen O. Saxe, Louis Solomon, Alan Sweetser, Samuel C. Timmons, Robert W. Tolf, Richard A. Van Deuren, Peter Van Slingerland, Jefferson Watkins, Roland F. While, and Judson M. Wood...
...Forest City, Iowa, Furniture Dealer John Hanson dramatized the U.S. farmer's prosperity in a new way. He scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...