Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial engineers and builders, of Cleveland and New York, the plan is the result of a year's research. The aim: to make the factory a community asset by hiding machinery connections, replacing boiler houses with cleaner, more sightly power sources, etc., and to give the employes ideal working conditions. For management, designers stress the value of the "air view," in that an attractive plant is a potential sales story for plane travelers...
Exit Finns. Handsome, clever and soon divorced, Minister Procopé became the ideal extra man at dinner almost as soon as he arrived in 1939. When he finally eloped with the niece of a British countess (he was 50, she 29), hearts broke all over Washington, from Chevy Chase to Georgetown. Minister Procopé's popularity was more than personal. He represented the one country that continued to pay back its World War I debt to the U.S. (he paid an installment just 24 hours before he was expelled). Finland, too, was then the brave little nation which...
...sugary solution. It develops a network of very fine branches, *called "mycelium," which secrete penicillin. If the delicate mycelium breaks, production of penicillin stops. Temperature must be kept at 24°C. Worst of all hazards is contamination. The sugary bath in which the mold grows is an ideal medium for bacteria; if any get in, they destroy all penicillin present in three hours. And when all these hazards are survived, the yield is fantastically small. The broth from which powdered penicillin is extracted contains only two to six thousandths of 1% of pure penicillin...
Speaking of Lieutenants, add one to the 10,702 officers of the supply Corps. As of next Sunday's strip, our ideal and hero, Shinin Dick Tracy, will be an honorary member...
...Marshal Erwin Rommel, the flashy plug-ugly who became one of the war's great soldiers, is Inspector General of Western Defenses. At 52 Rommel still enjoys a home reputation little tarnished by the thrashing he finally took in Africa. His command, the mobile task force, is the ideal instrument for his attributes of daring and ingenuity, if he still has them...