Word: welching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last of the Big Four- Welch, Halsted, Osler and Kelly - who headed the original faculty when Johns Hopkins Medical School was founded in 1893, was Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly; he died...
Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government. To this logical question he got a logical answer. Said the Maritime Commission's Vice Admiral Emery S. Land: when the ships are completed they will be assigned to the United Nations shipping pool and used for whatever service the pool considers necessary. Only after the pool is disbanded will the Dutch get their new ships...
MAIDEN VOYAGE - Denton Welch -Fischer ($2.75). A 17-year-old protege of Poetess Edith Sitwell writes precociously of his truancy, his travels and adventures on the Continent and in China, and such bizarre escapades as his walk through a city's streets at midnight disguised as a woman...
...which he is already flying for the Army. To make this trans-pacific route financially feasible, Hunter had to have the Milwaukee-New York link. But he made it plain last week that he wants no help for this big job. He brushed off the suggestion of CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue that Northwest merge with Pennsylvania-Central Airlines, presumably to put Northwest on a better competitive footing with the other transcontinental lines. Said Hunter: "It is an amazing and inexplicable idea...
...Policy. Despite this shattering news, the State Department plodded ahead. The President appointed a U.S. delegation of some 36 air experts, technicians and aids, including Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Lloyd Welch Pogue and a handful of politicos, including New York's Mayor LaGuardia. Assistant Secretary Berle was named chairman. The delegates were supplied with maps and the beginnings of a U.S. air policy, which boiled down to two U.S. wants: 1) 140,000 miles of global air routes under the freest of competition; 2) an international air authority, with only limited powers (safety measures, etc.), a sort of international...