Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that at 40, slim, sandy-haired Gordon Gray had learned enough to run the whole show. He nominated Gray to succeed fellow North Carolinian Kenneth C. Royall as Secretary of the Army...
...probably the only greenhouse where weeds and orchids grow side by side, and where people pay more attention to weeds. It's certainly one of the few greenhouses where plants wear bandages. Professor Kenneth V. Thimann put them on after injecting hormones into the stems to see how growth was affected. His investigation of plant galls may lead to new information on animal cancers...
...gone to Europe to see the D.P.s for themselves last summer. Member after member, Republican and Democrat alike, rose to dispute Texas Ed. Pennsylvania's James G. Fulton pointed out that the D.P. behavior record was better than that of the U.S. occupation forces. New York's Kenneth B. Keating declared: "They are the most fervid anti-Communists I have ever encountered." To exclude any possible subversives, "there has been set up a truly formidable labyrinth of five screening agencies through which these people must go." Added Kentucky's Frank L. Chelf...
...just finished its compilation last week when Phillips Petroleum's President Kenneth S. Adams announced in Calgary that his company had bought an interest in 4,800,000 acres of oil rights in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In its northern venture, Phillips was following the trail of such giants as Standard Oil (N.J.) and the Texas Co. They and other U.S. firms were turning out 66% of all petroleum products made in Canada...
...rarely that I take exception to TIME, but you have erred in the review of Kenneth Roberts' new book I Wanted to Write [TIME April...