Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the Communist Unit a: "All honest Italians bound to the working classes and . . . the Catholic intellectuals who are . . . guiding the Christian Democrats, are urged to collaborate with...
...inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that the burner produces 40% more heat per unit of coal...
...Stewart-Warner Corp. has developed a gasoline-burner the size of a waste basket, capable of generating enough heat for a 20-room house. Based on the hot-air heater now used in planes, the unit can be hung from attic rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those...
West Pointer Tompkins was picked in May 1943 to head the planning unit. Under him is a staff of 22. In his office in the Pentagon Building, bound between pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
...Department checked deep into the combat record of its famed 100th Infantry Battalion, found that the Japanese-American combat outfit had set a top mark for gallantry. Already cited as a unit by Lieut. General Mark Clark (TIME, July 31), the 100th's soldiers had also won nine Distinguished Service Crosses, 44 Silver Stars, 31 Bronze Stars, three Legion of Merit Medals...