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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Andrew G. L. McNaughton became Canada's Minister of National Defense last November, he stepped into the battle of politics, in which the tactics were strange and the weapons stranger...
Along with this frontal attack came a potshot from within McNaughton's own Liberal Party, and the Cabinet itself. In Ottawa's Press Gallery, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald plunked himself down behind the green-topped poker table, answered a question thrown out by Ken Cragg of the Tory-minded Toronto Globe & Mail: "What about this business of ships being sunk...
...53rd birthday, was posthumously honored by Freedom House, liberal, non-political educational organization, which officially announced a campaign to raise $250,000 for the purchase of a nine-story Manhattan building (occupied for 26 years by the old New York Club), planned to dedicate it as the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building on the first anniversary of his death...
Announced in Manhattan last week was a cure for penicillin's handicaps. Dr. Raymond L. Libby, American Cyanamid Co. biophysicist, reported that he had perfected a method of administering the drug by mouth. Now the way has been paved for treatment at home...
...instrument was developed by a famed navigation expert, Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow, who was killed in an air crash last year, and by the Bendix Aviation Corp. Its chief use so far has been in B-29 Superfortresses and in carrier planes, which have found it very helpful in getting back to their ships...