Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based on Patton's life, to be called Blood and Guts...
...sessions' most colorful, provocative speaker was side-whiskered, bushy-browed, radical Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, who boomed: "The British people find it difficult to understand the American people and the results may be disastrous for the peace of the world. One reason for this is that their ideas of the American people are largely derived from films filtered through the Hays film censorship. This remarkable organization never allows wrong to triumph or ministers of religion to appear as villains. . . . No wonder we are apt to think of Americans as alternating between violence and smugness...
Tsitsin, a small, black-mustached scientist, showered with all manner of Soviet awards, gets $15,000,000 a year from the Government for large-scale studies in "grain economics for non-fertile soil." He has grown fruit on vegetable vines, vegetables on trees (e.g., beans grafted on willows, tomatoes on a South American fruit tree called "tsfamalda"). For 15 years he has worked toward a perfect wheat: one which would come up year after year without seeding, resist drought and disease, survive killing winters, wind and rain, yield at least 25 bushels an acre...
...civilian workers in Germany," declared the British political scientist, "there are at least 4,000,000 unskilled laborers who could be used to rebuild devastated Russia. This might certainly include high Nazi officials and organizers plus men in luxury industries such as the 100,000 barbers in the country. If this is done with care, it will give the Russians what they think they're entitled to, without ruining German economy...
...International Labor Office assigned British Political Scientist Herman Finer to make a thorough assay of these dreams...