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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinnacle. In New London, Conn., Navy Commander Eugene B. Fluckey (Congressional Medal of Honor, Navy Cross with three gold stars, two unit citations) earned the necessary merit badges, at 34, to become an Eagle Scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

While Humason's spectrographs gradually improved, Hubble theorized until he came to a momentous conclusion: that the speed of recession of the nebulae is directly proportionate to their distance. This meant that each of the large units of matter in the universe (nebulae) is moving away from every other unit. The Milky Way galaxy (the earth's local nebula) is not the only center of the explosion. Every other nebula is equally an explosion center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...This narrowed down the possible choices. Though ballots were mailed out to absent members, and final tally came less than a month later, when but a handful of the mailed ballots had returned, and the remainder were still buried in scattered APO stations around the country. The V-12 unit in College effectively elected the '46 Committee and the unanimous V-12 membership on it seems to bear out this contention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election without Representation | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

Almost immediately after the release of a circular letter announcing Sunday's meeting, Major General William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan endorsed UMT in a lengthy article published in Wednesday's issue of "Shannonigans," official bulletin of the University ROTC unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Students Organize Against UMT | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

Byproducts. The Economist has a much larger staff (about 25) than its circulation alone could afford. To support it, Crowther has built up an "intelligence unit" of economists to do research jobs at handsome fees for British industries. The combined staffs produce much more than the Economist has room to print; some of the overflow goes into a confidential foreign newsletter ($84 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Economist on Tour | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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