Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, the Suttons, Sand and their Colaborers have drilled a 125-ft. well, installed a gasoline power generator, raised 63 sturdy cabins and a schoolhouse-church. They have built a bridge and spur road to short-cut the trip to the Paraná River, are starting another school, a separate church, and several more frame houses for the Colaborer families soon to follow. They hold Sunday and evening services for hundreds of Brazilians, show film strips, pass out Portuguese-language Bibles and prayer books. George Sutton, 35, has trimmed off 35 lbs., put calluses on his hands lugging buckets...
...internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer was released after three years, he headed straight for West Berlin to raise money for a clandestine anti-Communist humor magazine. Since the first issue, the content has stayed much the same: color cartoons, short skits, jokes and bogus biographies of party leaders...
...done for Technician Kelley. He had received between 6,000 and 18,000 rem (roentgen equivalent man) of radiation, at least ten times the dose that is generally considered deadly. Nine hours after the accident, Kelley became coherent enough to explain that he mistook the blue flash for a short circuit in the stirrer switch. A day later he died. Dr. Thomas Shipman, head of the laboratory's health division, said that the radiation had done fatal damage to his central nervous system...
...five men he sent letters asking: "If it would be convenient, could you possibly send me a short statement on your participation in the battle? Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...
...biggest U.S. electrical firm and the world's biggest supplier of power equipment, concerned with power for everything from toasters to jet engines. Its stake has been defined in terms that every schoolboy can understand by G.E.'s chairman Ralph Jarron Cordiner, 58, a short (5 ft. 7½ in.), power-packed man with restless eyes that are always trained on the future, ever watchful for risk and opportunity. Says Cordiner: "The atom is the power of the future-and power is the business of General Electric...