Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force officers estimated that 5,000 to 6,000 hand grenades were being turned out every day at a Communist small-arms plant at Nakwon, just south of the Yalu in northwestern Korea. Early last week U.S. planes dropped leaflets warning the people of Nakwon that an air raid was coming. Next day 14 B-29s lumbered over, through heavy flak and passes by enemy interceptors, and blasted the grenade factory to bits...
...Winchester; RKO Radio), based on A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s 1947 novel, can best be described as a northwestern-the story of a grueling, 1,200-mile fur-trading trek up the uncharted...
...politician and a medium-sized man on the campus, managing editor of the Daily Princetonian. His nervous, hurrying habits ("a nice, harmless, pleasant guy," a roommate recalls) brought him a nickname: "Rabbit." Entered Harvard Law School, dropped out within two years because of low grades. Did better at Northwestern University Law School, was graduated...
Career: For 18 months, between Harvard and Northwestern, worked as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. After graduation from Northwestern, entered law practice in Chicago. In 1933 he went to Washington as special counsel to the administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. Returned to law practice in Chicago in 1935, went back to Washington in 1941 to be special assistant to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, a Republican. Later served as a special assistant to two Secretaries of State, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Handled press relations...
...secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...