Word: uncoverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy's rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight. Many a Congressman, suddenly made aware of the contract which Navy Secretary Frank Knox signed last November with Standard Oil of California to pump oil from Elk Hills, mumbled of...
Last Psalm. Three Chaplains are standing over eight khaki-blanketed bodies. The bulldozers stop digging and their drivers uncover as the services begin. But the dozens of tractors on the muddy roads and beaches a few hundred yards away continue their clanking and chuffing.
His most serious problem was that Consolidated built hulls faster than it could get turbines to power them. He persuaded the Maritime Commission to lease the Long Beach municipal docks, and he moored completed hulls there. When the turbines arrived he devised a brand-new method to install them through...
The only Bolivian bond issue in 1926 or 1927 which newsmen could uncover was a $14,000,000 issue of 7% gold bonds offered by Dillon, Read & Co. at 98½. A member of the firm then: James V. Forrestal now Under Secretary of the Navy.
Discussing the general manpower out-look at his press conference, he also disclosed he may call for nationwide registration of women, largest untapped source of labor, to uncover potential workers for ever-expanding war industries. He emphasized that there are no plans to draft women.