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Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovett took the cue from his assistant, Anna M. Rosenberg, and called on "our greatest reservoir of human power...
...trouble with the UMT plan is that, as the commission itself admits, it would not be able to go into operation until the Army's man-power needs are smaller--until the present emergency is over. It is a measure designed to give the United States a large reservoir of men who have had some military training...
Creole did not always belong to Jersey. The name was engraved originally on the shares of a stock promotion of the '20s called the Creole Syndicate, which had concessions on an expanse of shallow water in Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela, covering a tremendous oil reservoir. Jersey bought control of the syndicate, combined it with other Venezuelan holdings into Creole Petroleum Corp., punched holes into Lake Maracaibo's bottom from specially developed drilling barges. Now there are 2,000 lake wells, each a little steel-and-concrete island separated by a strip of water, forming...
...been disturbed by mysterious bomb blasts, five of them directed against Communist bookstores and propaganda headquarters. Last week the bomb-throwers blasted the front door and grillwork of the Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord, used by Moscow for its financial transactions with France, and a known reservoir for Communist Party funds...
...height of the retreat from the Chosin Reservoir last winter, Meirowsky arrived at Hamhung with a duffel bag full of instruments. He elbowed some space in a field hospital, persuaded a peacetime obstetrician to team up with him, and got to work. By the time the evacuation was over, he had proved his point that brain operations could be performed under com bat conditions...