Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied Powers took a seasoned soldier's look at the Red tide now lapping down over his map of China. Last week he sent a 16-page radio report to Washington. Its heading was mild enough: "Strategic Implications of the Developments in China." But to the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week, the report was a stinger. Once again, Douglas MacArthur found himself in a potentially untenable position. And he was calling for help...
Both the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and the Inter-Collegiate Rowing Association issued a joint ruling requiring that crews wear jerseys of distinctive colors, with sleeves at least one-quarter length. This was done to help identify the crews from the shore...
Fourteen Harvard professor received recognition for their war services in a joint Army-Navy ceremony yesterday at New Lecture Hall. They were among the 86 Greater Boston men who were honored with the Certificate of Merit from the Defense Department. Varied fields of work, ranging from medical research to economics were represented among the men who received the honors...
...hour overtime. The boosts were retroactive to Aug. 21, 1948. The new one-year contract will run to Sept. 30, 1949. Other terms gave longshoremen a better break in their working hours and vacation plan, and guaranteed a welfare fund to be worked out by a joint management-labor committee. The welfare and vacation provisions were what worried shipping men, who said they had taken "an old-fashioned shellacking...
...from causing rain, the dry ice often produced the opposite effect: it made clouds dissipate. In rolling officialese, the Air Force and Weather Bureau expressed their joint disillusionment: "The responsible scientists of the project interpret the long series of experiments to mean that recently proposed artificial weather modification processes are of relatively little economic importance...