Word: palmers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days Palmer Hoyt tried to run the Domestic Branch of OWI the same way he used to run his newspaper. It had taken him twelve years to grow from copyreader to publisher of the Portland Oregonian; it took him six months to convince Washington once more that the often-lamented shortage of Westerners in the Federal administration is Washington's loss...
News that might prove to be a bombshell was thrown into the television industry last week-and by a university professor. Before a group of television experts in Manhattan's Yale Club, Dr. Palmer H. Craig, head of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Florida, announced that he had invented a system of television broadcasting which might send the existing systems, admittedly faulty, to the scrap heap...
...Fortnight ago, New Zealand-born Keith Palmer (Melbourne, Australia Herald and U.S. Newsweek) was killed and Associated Pressman Rembert James wounded when a Japanese bomb demolished a correspondents' tent on Bougainville Island. Palmer was the 15th British Empire reporter to be killed in World War II. U.S. deaths...
...should not happen again. The fast-dwindling group of those who believed in preparedness wanted a National Defense Act to establish and keep the framework of an army, so that the next time the U.S. would be ready. Pershing was still busy in France; he sent Colonel John McAuley Palmer to give advice, and Palmer framed an act setting up stronger National Guard units, ROTCs, CMTCs and a Regular Army of 280,000 men. Pershing came home to testify before Congress. He wanted a democratic Army. This was a democratic Army. The bill was passed. But it was an emasculated...
...scheme is not new. Denver's hard-driving Robert S. Palmer, 41-year-old mining association secretary, has been urging it for years. But the cost was only one barrier. The tunnel would interlace through 600 miles of underground workings, involving 2,000 patented claims, with heirs spread from Atlanta to China. RFC took one look at the legal snares, refused funds. Then the Bureau of Mines, anxious to increase zinc production, took an interest. (Zinc is used in brass cartridges; every big bomber carries 500 pounds of it.) As a war measure, Congress last spring gave Ickes...