Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look something like Sen-Sen. "This stuff could ignite the atom and send it off," he remarks casually. "It's enough to destroy the little globe called the universe." Dunninger wanted to share his spectacular discovery with the Government, but "they paid no attention to me." During the war, Dunninger tried to give the Navy a method of making battleships invisible, but again was balked by bureaucratic obtuseness. A Navy spokesman snorted: "Wildly fantastic. We refuse to be party to a cheap publicity stunt...
More Kinks. What had gone wrong? Well, said Gunderson, it had taken Lustron a long time to get all the machinery and steel it needed to produce houses in the huge war-surplus Curtiss-Wright plant in Columbus. Last February, Lustron thought it had ironed out the kinks and announced production of 25 houses a day, predicted a rate of 100 by July...
...Dearest Friend." Last week the New York Herald Tribune snorted that this was not so. To prove its point, the Trib dug up a case history on one of Washington's five-percenters named James V. Hunt, an ex-Army officer and onetime War Assets Administration official...
...autographed photos of prominent politicos, including Harry Truman. Hunt rattled off the names of his "friends," including Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan ("my closest and dearest friend"), Louis Johnson, and others. Hunt, according to Grindle, claimed that he had swung many deals. Among them was the repurchase from the War Assets Administration of Long Island's Lido Beach Club by its prewar owners, for half of their selling price to the Navy. Hunt's commission: $102,500. (The owners later said it was only '$80,000.) Grindle agreed to pay Hunt $1,000 down, a $500 monthly...
Bermúdez' hunch was that Mexican oil reserves would be needed by the U.S. in case of another war. But most U.S. companies have refused to go back under the poor terms offered by Pemex, the government oil monopoly. Hat in hand, Bermúdez has had to ask the U.S. to put up $200 million for an oil development loan...