Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that within the next three years, nine new weather stations for long-range forecasting will be built above the Arctic Circle. Canadians will be in charge of operating them, but the U.S. will pay an unspecified portion of the initial cost (an estimated $150,000 per station) and maintenance. At first the U.S. will also provide most of the trained personnel. Though Howe did not say so, Canadians guessed that this was the first action to implement the new U.S.-Canada defense agreement (TIME...
Lest the new stations rouse up sensitive Russia, Minister Howe held out an offer of help. He did not know how many weather stations Russia has in its own Arctic regions (she had 137 in 1940). But he hoped that some day Canada would be able to interchange the new Arctic weather information with the U.S.S.R. in the same way the two countries now exchange general weather reports...
...California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses of the mind, from which the corruption of death filters into the collective unconscious...
Freshman lineup--lw, Abbott, c, Fletcher; rw, Farrington; ld, Key; rd, Allen; g, Chase. Spares: Abbott, Huntington, Ward, Freedman, Loring, Hopkins, Lamb, Howe, Taber, Bradlee, Draper, Mumford
Canadian-born Fred Pearson, left wing on the second line, is the team's top goal producer with 18. It was the third line combination of Perry Sturgis, Dick Manville, and Bill Howe that provided the fifth and sixth official goals against the Indians...