Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed their academic work in the summer form and had been going through a five-week program of refresher courses. Their departure leaves some 350 men in the NROTC unit at Harvard, 20-edd V-12ers who were here during the summer having been processed out of the Navy or sent to graduate school...
...count, 440. Great Britain and the U.S. count the completed vibration to & fro as one unit; the French count each half...
...worth $27,000,000 at present prices), whalers hope to have a $30,000,000-a-year business before many years have passed. They intend to ask, at the meeting next month, for a relaxation of the international whaling agreement, which now restricts kills to 16,000 blue-whale units (two fin whales, or two and a half humpbacks are counted as one blue-whale unit). They argue that with fewer ships, tight restrictions are no longer necessary...
First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...
More than 3,000 servicemen have said they hoped to become Protestant ministers. To guide them, the Federal Council of Churches has set up a sort of vocational-guidance unit, Commission on the Ministry. The Commission's aim is to raise the general level of the Protestant ministry -all denominations - by helping the churches to select candidates who are as occupationally fit as they are willing. In future, it will borrow the tactics of big business and use talent scouts to pick the most promising young men from each year's crop of college graduates. Hardest...