Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percy R. Howe and Dr. Kurt H. Thoma, members of the University faculty, have been elected Fellows of Dental Surgery by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England "In recognition of their contributions to the advancement of dental surgery...
Guards Brigade, the Fourth Hussars, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers as well as naval and airforce units to Malaya. To hold their rebellious colonies, the French and Dutch are using men who could be used for the defense and recovery of Europe. The Kremlin did not create the anti-Western drive in Southeast Asia-but stepping up that drive now is a shrewd and important move in the Kremlin's World Plan...
Nine months after attaining its independence, Burma was falling apart. A battle royal of rebellion, mutiny and murder surged around Rangoon. The government could not govern, the army scarcely knew whom to fight. Last week the guns of the Burmese Navy frigate Mayu drove rebels from Syriam, a town only a mile and a half from the capital...
...four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of air safety in the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, now attache in Ottawa, was returning from a cruise with Canada's aircraft carrier Magnificent (TIME, Sept. 13). Captain Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, the Royal Navy's observer, was Custer's guest. There were two U.S. Navy pilots. And there was Master Sergeant Jerome Scalise, 50, going home to Virginia for retirement. After 30 years in the Army, Scalise knew his way around: he could get home two days earlier by bumming...
Textron Retreat. In the Battle of Nashua (N.H.) over the closing of Textron, Inc.'s sheet and blanket factory (TIME, Sept. 27), the town won a partial victory. Harassed by a Senate committee, Textron's Royal Little agreed to continue his sheetmaking department (which employs 1,000 of his 3,500 workers) "as long as it remains profitable." Little also picked up some ammunition for his case against New England's easygoing textile workers. When he offered to keep the entire plant open if the workers would accept a heavier work load and increase production, the C.I.O...