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...been his headquarters since January-first, as commanding general, 21st Bomber Command, lately as commanding general, Twentieth Air Force. When he moved 1,500 ft. beyond the road to a cramped, three-man office he took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
Other Bush notions about mechanical aids to thought: a recording machine that would type when talked to, with a radio connection making it possible for the busy executive to record an idea for the microfilm library when he is away from his office; a camera the size of a walnut (worn on the forehead) which would take stereoscopic pictures in full color...
...last week Nate Cummings sat in a new walnut-paneled office backed by a carved lion's head on the wall-the trademark of Reid, Murdoch's "Monarch" brand, which he now owns, along with the "Yacht Club" and Sprague, Warner's "Richelieu" and "None-Such...
...chemical is sometimes, however, destructive of some of man's best friends. At the University of California, when walnut trees were sprayed to kill the destructive codling moth, the beneficent ladybird beetles were killed too. Result: a horde of walnut aphids, normally eaten by the ladybirds, fell on the defenseless trees and stripped their foliage...
...long, metal-bound walnut chest named for the chest which once reposed in Westminster Abbey's Chapel of the Pyx, now rests in England's Mint, where newly minted British coins are deposited for Britain's annual coinage-testing: the Trial...