Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...identical wires to the six major steel companies, he proposed a board of inquiry which would make recommendations on settling the dispute. U.S. Steel Corp.'s stiff-necked Ben Fairless turned it down flat. The Taft-Hartley Act, he pointed out, "is still the law of the land," and it expressly states that a fact-finding board shall be forbidden to make recommendations. The other steelmen took the same line...
...bigger output of equipment for land armies and army-support aviation, as opposed to naval and long-range bomber construction...
This fall, the Western Union land forces under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny will hold war games to show how well the Western Union landlubbers can work together...
...assured his audience that "the work done here may prove a thousand times more valuable to humanity than all the oil in Oklahoma," Fleming could hear the thudding accompaniment of a pumping well on nearby state land. Researcher Fleming had a word for the foundation's governors. It was up to them, he said, "to create the free atmosphere which will allow genius full play . . . Much in the future of humanity depends on the freedom of the researcher to pursue his own line of thought. Fundamental research thrives on free enterprise, and wilts and withers under too many controls...
...constantly getting lost, he conceded, but being lost is actually a "dramatic privilege" and not an evil. When lost, the man who has faith turns himself into an instrument of orientation "to guide him and to return him to himself ... If man had not been lost, countless times, on land and sea, the points of the compass would never have been developed...