Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topping Saturday's report that the Bausch and Lomb optical firm had given its 17-foot telescope to the University Observatory at Climax, Colorado, came news yesterday that the Climax Observatory would become a joint venture of both Harvard and the University of Colorado through a certificate of incorporation filed under Colorado law recently...
Almost unnoticed last week was a bill introduced by Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion LaFollette Jr. to bring some efficiency to the creaky and cranky machinery of Congress. The bill had been hammered out of the findings of a joint Senate-House committee. Its proposed reforms...
...there any reason," he asked significantly, "why Canada and the U.S. should not concert arrangements for joint defense? . . . We are becoming increasingly aware in Canada of our significance as an arctic power, and the effect of this on our relations with both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. We are most anxious to develop the economic . . . resources of our north country . . One of the great sources of uranium in the world is well within the Canadian Arctic Circle. In this arctic development, however, we desire the closest possible cooperation with...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...
Tundra Theater. The new plan, prepared by the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, called for the same close cooperation in peace for the defense of northern North America as had existed during the war. The two countries would maintain defense bases and weather stations on the roof of the continent; they would devise and make suitable equipment; their forces would be coordinated, trained (see below) and armed with the same arctic weapons. If the tundras ever faced invasion, U.S. and Canadian troops would man the arctic defenses together...