Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...howitzers, fuel, lubricants, electric voltage systems.* ¶The U.S. reassured its NATO allies about raw material shortages (other NATO members have long been worried about heavy U.S. stockpiling). Most serious of the shortages-tungsten, molybdenum, cotton, sulphur-brought Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Richard Rapier Stokes, to Washington last week. U.S. officials promised that the,U.S. would share its raw material reserves with its allies, consider their needs on an equal basis with U.S. industry...
...four days the marines fought off Red attacks from three sides. Then a British brigade and a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division arrived, and helped them seal off the penetration. The Chinese managed to cut the Seoul-Chunchon highway, but after that they "ran out of steam." They had vast reinforcements moving up, but apparently they needed to leapfrog them through the units that had already been mauled, and that took time...
Richard Rapier Stokes, Lord Privy Seal, succeeding the late Ernest Bevin; 54; a burly (225 Ibs.), good-humored, unconventional go-getter who once, when his trousers got soaked in the rain, attended an official conference in his drawers. Son of a lawyer, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated with an engineering degree; entered Woolwich Royal Military Academy, saw service in France during World War I, won the rank of major; after the war, became a boilermaker; eventually headed the great British engineering firm of Ransomes & Rapier, Ltd. As the Labor government's Minister of Works...
...turn from the Coast Guard, the sheriff, the county lifeguards, the Humane Society, the County Road Dept., the Air Pollution Board, the Parks & Recreation Dept., the Health Dept. and the Department of Sanitation, the caretaker of the Portuguese Bend Beach Club himself burned the 5-ft. 50-lb. dead seal that had been washed ashore...
Bombs to Tanks. During World War I, when Ray Smith took on contracts to build aerial bombs, his engineers worked out a new method of arc welding to seal the bombs. Later, he used the welding process to make high-pressure oil tanks, which until then had been tediously assembled by hand in riveted sections. Soon, Smith had 90% of the oil-tank business...