Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the Gilman Engineering and Manufacturing Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of the Parker Pen Co., which has been granted exclusive rights to manufacture the ripper, is working to fill orders for millions (the exact figure is a trade secret) of the needles. According to Mrs. Lawrence, additional orders are coming in daily from all over the world...
Harry Truman had been General Dutra's guest during the Rio de Janeiro defense conference in 1947 and the U.S. President was returning hospitality in the homely, natural way he likes best. Accompanied only by two Secret Service men and an interpreter, Guide Truman led his guest through the White House grounds. Along the curving iron back fence he pointed out where the Potomac once flowed before it shifted course, and told a story, probably apocryphal, about another early-rising American President...
Waters, Fingers, Wells. Lilienthal seemed to be trying to make two points. One of them was that where no secret information was involved (and therefore no question of national security), no federal investigation of a federal scholarship holder was justified. Mixing his metaphors, Lilienthal declared: "Once you have passed the secrecy line, you are in the broad, tragic waters of the federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison...
Wheelwright's father, a resident of Danvers, told Secret Service agent Manrice R. Allen that his son "was a good boy before he went into the Army, but he was changed when he got home." The son is no longer living with his family, the father said: he maintains an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City...
This was simply a compilation of a series of classified-secret tests run off early this year between the huge now B-36 and various service model jet-fighters. The B-36, a six-engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests...