Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those tasks would encompass the entire field of atomic research, production, engineering and application. Traditional property rights were swept aside. In the atomic field there would be no such thing as private ownership. The commission would be sole owner or would acquire ownership of all facilities the U.S. might need for the production of fissionable material; of all materials capable of producing an atomic chain reaction; of property containing source materials. It would be authorized to: produce fissionable material with its own facilities or make contracts for production; mine and refine supplies; distribute fissionable materials and byproducts; and under...
Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys Cooper), a termagant, makes him a green flower-sprigged suit out of a petticoat. The great-grandfather (Charles Coburn), a sort of marked-down Falstaff, heartlessly clips his toenails in the waif's face, but soon shows that this was mere gruffness. The schoolboys tease the orphan about...
...analysis of basic trends in the College may be sought in the division of responsibility. The College can no longer look to its President as the sole voice of authority. With the exigencies of war; more and more responsibility was shifted to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Only lately this shift was made permament when the Dean received the title of Provost...
Actually the two Clevelanders, sole owners of Jahco's common stock, had sold it all to the new company for $8 million ($5 million in cash, $3 million in preferred stock), no longer had any voting control in Jack & Heintz. Despite the chairmanship title given to Bill Jack, and the $40,000-a-year lifetime jobs promised to him and Heintz, his boss was now President B. C. Milner...