Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
President Conant's appointment to the rubber board, consisting of Bernard Baruch, chairman of the board, and Karl Compton, president of M. I. T., came on the heel of a White House veto of a bill authorizing the manufacture of synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. President Roosevelt established the committee in order to survey the needs and possibilities and make an early recommendation...
Exchange Student. Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, born in Germany, was brought to the U.S. as a boy, grew up in Buffalo, excelled in scholarship and sports at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1938 he went to a Technische Hochschule in Hannover as an exchange student. Last week, with $7,000 in his jeans, he came back on the S.S. Drottningholm, the Swedish exchange ship bringing Americans repatriated from Europe. He played craps with the passengers, bought them drinks...
Dark, bespectacled Karl Bahr was taken to court in Newark to face espionage charges...
...submarine showed that its sturdy construction enabled it to submerge to nearly 600 feet, twice the usual operational limit of depth charges. A newly improved motor has also helped give some U-boats greater speed at sharp-angle crash-diving. Such German submarines, the brain children of Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2), are now powered with a single, modified diesel engine that burns oil in surface cruising and a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen when submerged. Other submarines use oil-burning diesels on the surface, electric motors under water...