Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
...material from the patches. He repeated the experiment many times, watching for changes in the soil's microscopic population. Some of the organisms thrived on the strange diet, indicating that they might destroy pneumonia bacteria. Dubos made cultures of the hardy fighters and tested them against various disease-causing organisms...
When the new $44.4 million credit is drawn on, Henry Kaiser's various enterprises, according to his books, will owe the Government $186.6 million. He still owes $88.2 million on his Fontana, Calif, steel plant and $54 million on Permanente Metals, Willow Run and the Ironton (Utah) blast furnace. To date, Kaiser has paid off a total of $70.1 million on Government loans and credits, and he has paid another $41 million to the U.S. in rents and interest. Kaiser said he has also poured $108 million in earnings and private loans into improving and expanding his plants...
...present system of electing members, termed "bickering," lies near the bottom of the entire difficulty. Under its terms, the various clubs single out those students whom they most desire to have as members. There are two weeks of "Open House" in February during which time second term sophomores, and juniors left out in the previous year's bicker, can visit any and all clubs...
Dean Gauss left during the war. Returning students were mixed up in potpourri of various classes following the war, and few felt like spending the valuable time in working out what to do with 10 percent. Gateway's clubhouse had been taken over for some temporary housing, and before anyone realized it, there were only 17 clubs again. The result was over-crowding, and generally un-luxurious condition in the clubs through the fall...