Word: manus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left behind. In its stead, another of the Navy's imposing monuments to U.S. speed and ingenuity was built and implemented. By last week one of its secret-wrapped bases was far enough in the rear for the Navy to feel safe in unwrapping it. The base was Manus in the Admiralty Islands, more than 6,000 miles southwest of San Francisco, a key supply and repair point for the Philippine invasion...
Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...
...Manus was a red, shell-pocked beach, backed by impenetrable jungles and a shouldering mountain. The Seabees carried with them every item they needed-from aerial photographs and bulldozers to $15,000,000 in currency for the payroll and 50,000 cases of beer. On May 1 they went to work...
...through a course leading to a doctorate of science. Head of this low-cost educational project-an extension of both Los Angeles University's College of Psychiatry and Golden State University of Los Angeles-was curly-haired, thoughtful-looking, 24-year-old, self-styled "Vice Dean" George William Manus. His sideburns and the drape of his chalk-stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should...
Last week a New York State Department of Education official paid a professional call on Vice Dean Manus. As a consulting specialist, he brought along one of Mayor Fiorello ("Butch") LaGuardia's plain-clothes men. "Dr." Manus, whose scientific studies had not turned him against religion (his 4-D draft status is for ministers and divinity students), was held on $5,000 bail. The charges: 1) presiding over an unchartered college (whose West Coast mother institutions were non existent); 2) calling himself a medical doctor; 3) calling his high-gear sheepskin tannery a school of medicine...