Word: rears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation network expanded and made efficient. With realistic vision, he advocated settling 700,000 D.P.s in Brazil's vast backlands. Often he lost patience because Brazilians did not buy his ideas as quickly as he would have liked. And often his rear was harassed by confusion (or worse) in the State Department...
Ronne wiped some geography off the map, too. He reported that the Weddell Islands, which Sir Hubert Wilkins and Ronne thought they had seen from the air, did not exist. And he solved what Rear Admiral Byrd once called "the world's greatest unsolved geographical puzzle": whether a strait between the Ross and Weddell Seas actually divides Antarctica in two. Ronne proved that there is no strait...
...Antarctic is no place for amateurs; and softspoken, leathery Finn Ronne is no amateur. His father was with Roald Amundsen when he discovered the South Pole; and Ronne, brought up in the mountains of Norway, first went to the Antarctic with Rear Admiral Byrd in 1933. When he goes back in a year or two ("There is a lure . . ."), Mrs. Ronne will not be with him. Says she: "Why, I didn't wear a dress the whole time I was there. The next time, I stay home...
...Since civilians will be the chief victims in any future war, they should have the most doctors. This was agreed on by medicos both in mufti and in uniform, at a Chicago meeting of the American Medical Association's Council on National Emergency Medical Service. What most worried Rear Admiral Morton D. Willcutts: Where to stack the radioactive corpses? Said he: "The question of disposal of civil ian dead will be formidable...
...Manhattan last week, Renault Ltd. exhibited its bid for a share of the U.S. auto market. The new French car is small (57 in. high, 141 in. long overall), and has its four-cylinder, 19-h.p. engine in the rear. Renault says that its car will go about 60 m.p.h., get 55 miles to the gallon. Price...