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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming from Barcelona and a chair of Arabic and Spanish Literatures in the university of that city, Pedro Grases has been appointed visiting lecturer in Spanish to share the load of Spanish 4b and 11b with William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and to give a new course on Hispanic Civilization...
Dutch humiliation is nourished by British refusal to allow Netherlands marines to land in Java; by the "undeclared war" waged by Australian wharfside workers who refused, out of sympathy for the Indonesians, to load Indies-bound ships; and by a gradually growing realization that Dutch mistakes brought defeat and disaster...
...steel coffins were showing the effects of wear and handling and many had been damaged and broken. Due to the damaged coffins and the advanced decomposition of the bodies, the nauseating job of disinterment for transfer to Finschhafen was given to native labor, but American G.I.s had to load them on the ship. . . . As the result of this experimental trip an order was issued that no Coast Guard-manned Army ship should load this type of cargo again because of the hazard to the health, well-being and morale of the crew...
...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...