Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mild, shy Henry Wallace, who never rants, never gets in any of the brawls of Washington, was roused to a cold fury. Object of his wrath: Martin Dies...
...international broadcasts, the receiving country seldom helps to prepare the programs it receives, but five Brazilians last week reached Manhattan for just that purpose. Their chief object: to assist the Rockefeller Committee (Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs) in getting up a daily radio program for Brazil...
Meanwhile, CAA had launched another school project: the Air Training Cadets of America. Its object: pre-flight training of high-school boys in aviation mathematics, aircraft identification, meteorology, navigation. From this course, CAA hopes eventually to get 2,000,000 Army & Navy airmen...
Most of the big dinosaurs will have to risk staying in Washington; so will many another object. It would be too heroic a task to bottle, bundle, crate and ship even a large fraction of the Smithsonian's 1,000,000 fish, its 1,750,000 plants, its 510,000 historical relics. (Only 5% of this material is displayed for the museum's 2,500,000 yearly visitors.) A Smithsonian zoologist last week estimated that the alcohol required to preserve the chosen animals for the duration would be enough to provide the entire Japanese army with...
...Government is planning a nationwide campaign to persuade housewives to save fat-pan drippings, meat trimmings and all-sell it to local butchers (at perhaps 5? a lb.). Object: glycerin, a byproduct of soap, which is made from...