Word: northeasterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...organization, consisting of Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pensylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale, will operate, under a contract with the government, the new Northeast National Laboratory project for research in nuclear physics and investigation on the applications of atomic energy...
...Northeast National Laboratory is one of three atomic research projects planned by the War Department. The second, the Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, is already in operation, and a third will be selected in the Far West at a future date. Part of the Clinton Engineering Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also be used in the research project...
...East Indies, wanted natural rubber at any cost.*Brazil was a possible source. Contracts were signed with the Brazilian Government, which, for $100 a head, agreed to round up and carry workers to the Amazon. Glowing advertisements brought in many a drought-ridden farmer of Brazil's Northeast. Others were shanghaied...
...floor of Brazil's Constituent Assembly, deputies last week demanded that the Government make a full report on the scandal of the lost army. In the dry Northeast, families still clamored for their men. On the jungle floor, far below the noise of the birds and the monkeys, was everlasting silence...
...Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted...