Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied nations had first call on Ruhr coal and would receive in addition 1,557 factories in reparations. Germany was to receive food in return for the coal and could maintain a not-too-proud existence as an agricultural and light industrial nation. But the Potsdam proposals never saw much action. Just as other parts of the agreement stalled before the ideological clashes of the great powers, so reparations and levelling of German industry melted in the heat of the East-West conflict; by February, 1947, only six of the 1,557 plants slated for reparation had been wholly removed...
Steppat's friend, Anthropologist Hell-mut De Terra, dug up Tepexpan Man last February near Mexico City. When Steppat saw the skull he decided to combine sculpture and science to give it an authentic face. He first considered dissecting corpses and measuring the average thickness of tissue on modern human faces. But he found that the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Wilton M. Krogman had done the job already, establishing the average thickness of face flesh at 15 points...
...oilmen, in the path of the Japanese advance through Sumatra, fired the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co.'s* $30,000,000 Palembang plant, biggest U.S. refinery in the Far East. Dutch soldiers held off the enemy until the oilmen escaped. The new Japanese proprietors rebuilt the refinery, saw their work undone in two Allied air raids. Few U.S.-owned plants in the Orient had taken such a beating; few staged a faster recovery...
...purpose of this story, however, is not to discuss the advisibility of either choice but simply to explain what the author saw on Saturday in New Haven...
...wily Harry Stuhidreher, using all the mental acumen he acquired quarterbacking the "Four Horsemen" under Knute Rockne, had his second eleven in there the entire third quarter. When the fourth period saw the return of the Badger regulars, tired old Eli gave up the ghost...