Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squishy Trails. With its headquarters on 113 acres of Civil War battleground at" the District-Maryland line, Walter Reed has mushroomed since it opened in 1909 as a memorial to the famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
Bennett professed not to know whether Washington's cutback plans were caused by an ample supply of uranium in the U.S. or by the prospect of some workable new process that could make uranium obsolete as a nuclear fuel. If the latter was the case, Canada was obviously unaware of it. Almost simultaneously with Howe's policy statement, the government revealed the details of Canada's first atomic power station, an $11 million plant that was described as a model for many more in the future. The plant will be fueled exclusively with Canadian uranium...
...lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance ... I'm glad I don't have such an abnorMalraux...
...employee in January 1941 obtained an appointment to a position in the U.S. Treasury Department through the aid and influence of Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. The latter, who had known the employee since they were graduate students together at the University of California in 1928-30, was named by the employee as a reference on his application for employment...
...private gain, while, before the House Banking Committee, an Administration bill to encourage businessmen to take Government jobs was having a rough time. The Administration wants to renew the Defense Production Act, which authorizes the employment of businessmen "without compensation," called WOCs in Potomac slang. (They are the latter-day successors of the famed dollar-a-year men, but receive not even the dollar since Congress in 1950 authorized the Government to accept the services of individuals without compensation...