Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idler--Patricia Troxell '49, president; Martha Nichols '50 and Edith Sloan '50, production managers; Nancy Rodriguez '50, business manager; Grace Tuttle '49, secretary...
...Predict . . ." In 1945, little A.C.S. money was allocated to research ; this year's research allotment to 100-odd institutions is $4,000,000, as much as A.C.S. raised for all purposes in 1945. A good share of the A.C.S. research money will go to the new Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (TIME, Nov. 3). Its new, 14-story, $4,000,000 building, on Manhattan's East Side, financed by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Charles F. ("Boss") Kettering, was formally opened by the donors one day last week...
...moments to dive off rocks, kiss Orson Welles, and just lie around looking dewy-eyed and shapely, and she still finds time to do a satisfactory job of acting out her part in the story. Welles, as the philosophic Irishman, affects a brogue that is not objectionable, while Everett Sloan and Glen Anders, who play Hayworth's husband and his partner respectively, give excellent performances as two rather evil individuals...
...bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
Then came the '47 floods, and although little action followed, the battle between the Pick-Sloan group and the MVA-ers increased in vigor. One prominent MVA man said scornfully that "assigning the United States Army engineers to the job of controlling floods . . . is precisely like sending Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid epidemic." Now, with a stingy Congress and international distractions, Pick's 10-year estimate on Missouri River control should probably be changed to 100 years. And MVA, for all its local support, is apparently on the shelf for a long time to come. the only thing that...