Word: pen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present situation would be cured merely by repeating those words in a bilateral form? 1 wonder whether again going through a treaty-making procedure at this time, on a bilateral basis only, might indeed work against the cause of peace by creating the illusion that a stroke of a pen had achieved a result which, in fact, can be obtained only by a change of spirit...
...Kkuko Toguri d'Aquino, more infamous as Tokyo Rose, whose seductive broadcasts in World War II aimed at demoralizing Allied forces in the Pacific but actually entertained them, wound up her ten-year treason stretch (with time off for rosy behavior) at the Federal women's pen in Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps...
...meter to measure blood flow directly. It was made by Dr. Henry H. Swain of the University of Michigan from the pinion gear of a discarded alarm clock, stiff wire, rubber tubing, glass bulbs. The tube is inserted directly into an artery. Blood passes through the tube, moves a pen that records on a graph any changes in the blood flow. Cost...
From the time when it bought its first ships in 1893, Grace Line Inc. (Canada to South America) has spent $118 million on ship construction. Last week, with a few scratchings of a pen, Grace Line President Lewis A. Lapham committed the line to a shipbuilding program that will cost more than double that amount. Lapham signed a contract with the Federal Maritime Board under which Grace promised to build, and the board agreed to subsidize, 26 ships at a cost of $286 million. The program will completely replace Grace's present aging fleet over a 20-year period...
...McCann headed west to visit the President, recuperating from his heart attack in Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Settling back in his plane seat, McCann began to scratch out in pen and ink the first, 400-word outline of the State of the Union message. He put down five subject headings: 1) "World Responsibility," which later grew to "The Discharge of Our World Responsibility"; 2) "National Security," which became "The Constant Improvement of our National Security"; 3) "Fiscal Integrity"; 4) "Our Production Plant," for which the President substituted "To Foster a Strong Economy"; 5) "Human Resources," which became...