Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO, but why is NATO's other Supreme Command (SACLANT) so consistently ignored? I do not doubt the importance of SHAPE, or the great abilities of General Gruenther, but Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., as Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, is responsible for NATO's defense of the vast 12 million square miles of ocean that separate Europe from America...
HISTORIAN Samuel Flagg Bemis' John Quincy Adams and The Union (see BOOKS) is the first major biographical work resulting from unrestricted access to the Adams Papers, currently being edited under a ten-year grant of $250,000 from TIME Inc. (TIME. Oct. 25, 1954). The vast and priceless collection of writings by Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and Diplomat Charles Francis Adams is being microfilmed for circulation to libraries, private and public, and eventually will appear in 34 volumes of diary, 12 to 15 volumes of family correspondence and an even greater number, still unestimated. of general...
...something more: this has been, if not my personal tragedy, then my continuing folly." Did the duchess ever consider jilting Edward VIII, or was her eye always on Britain's throne until he left it? She tantalizes her readers: "With a great throne at stake, a vast empire seething . . . I was unprepared and unarmed . . . in the eye of the storm . . . Had I had my way, when eleventh-hour full understanding finally came to me, this story would have had a different ending . . ." Promised by McCall's in next month's installment: "How she became a 'disillusioned...
Beneath the forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula lie vast iron deposits that have long resisted ore-hungry steelmen. The ore is jasper, a diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette...
...warned that a continuing supply of college graduates was needed to operate the country's vast and complicated technological systems. He stated that the universities were the recruiters and suppliers of trained personnel for business and therefore contributions should be considered as investments in "one of the most important things we have" rather than charity...