Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peace. As yet, all the world had to go on was the U.S. Government's intention to build a 1,000-mile, $130-165 million pipeline across Saudi Arabia, to move oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean (TIME, Feb. 14). But this was only an item; beyond it, momentous things were at stake-even the future peace of the world...
...Cohen was qualified as an observer with the R.A.F.V.R., was assigned as Air Liaison Officer with the Navy. Now 68, Wing Commander Cohen is the R.A.F.'s oldest flying officer. He has made 45 operational flights, totaling 500 air hours. Last week he got another ribbon, added another item to his record: he is the oldest recipient of the coveted, candy-striped Distinguished Flying Cross...
...Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey slapped a ban on the use of synthetic rubber in many a civilian item, even nipped plans for girdle manufacture...
...Item: the reaction must occur at 150° below zero, the next processing at 150° above. This type of process, which may be successful in a test tube, becomes fantastically difficult in a skyscraper-size plant. Butyl production is still negligible. The U.S. can still use Du Pont's neoprene (production: 49,000 tons yearly) for tubes. But the military long ago grabbed the lion's share of that. This left, as the only tube alternative, Buna S, mixed with the priceless crude rubber from the shrinking stockpile. On this basis the U.S. can afford few tubes...
First Light. When Moscow published the British denial, the Russian press took pains to couple the item with an otherwise innocuous Ankara dispatch to the London Sunday Times (no relation to the Times of London). This report said that Ambassador Franz von Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were...