Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visit to Washington last week, Moscow spokesman Ilya Ehrenburg (see PRESS) made two important scientific contributions-one to lexicography, one to political geography...
Michael Foot, just back from an official visit to Teheran, said this week that the Russians were likely to keep a "dominat ing force" in Azerbaijan and planned to control Iran's elections...
...from-gas plant, Carthage will use a variation of a method which Dobie Keith became familiar with during a visit to Germany in the thirties. With the Fischer-Tropsch method, the Germans made gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...flight to France (prewar British Airways price: a little over ?4). Britain's passport office was issuing a thousand passports a day, and hundreds of jealous wives wrote in, asking that their husbands' applications be refused; the wives suspected that the bounders merely wanted to visit wartime girl friends on the Continent. The Government did not encourage all this holiday hubbub, either, but for once Britons heeded neither their wives nor their Government. Each week, Cook's alone received 100,000 bookings for trips abroad...
...Duke of Hamilton, 43, headed home after a U.S. business trip and a visit to his old Oxford pal, New York State Boxing Commissioner, Eddie Eagan. The business: getting a new transatlantic air service under way. Once an amateur boxer of note, the greying, fiddle-fit Lord said he rarely put on the gloves any more -last time was about a year ago, with one of his two small sons. Did he want them to be boxers? Said the noncommittal Duke: they could be whatever they wanted...