Word: woodward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks the New York Herald Tribune sport page has dished up a weekly news omelet for G.I. Joe. Jampacked into a double column box, to be clipped and mailed overseas, were sport highlights, reported in a motley cablese. G.I.s liked it.'Last week Sports Editor Stanley ("Old Coach") Woodward wrote his farewell Weekly Overseas Sports Letter, thus summarized football's finals...
...Prop. Westinghouse Electric Corp. announced that it will employ nearly 2,000 workers, in its $10 million plant in Philadelphia, making $10-$15 million worth a year of gas turbine aircraft engines, jet and propeller driven, mainly for the armed services. Said Spokesman George H. Woodward: "Such engines will rapidly become dominant in the high-powered and high-speed airplane fields, both military and commercial...
...effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There is no use denying the fact that damage by Kamikazes to units of the fleet has been much more severe than the people at home believe...
Added Correspondent Woodward : "There is no sure defense against the Kamikaze. More than 90% of them are picked off by the Combat Air Patrol and the ships' gunners. A small proportion go into the water through their own ineptitude. A few . . . have ditched their planes in the water and have been taken prisoner. The ones that carry out their mission do tremendous damage and cause great loss of life among American crews...
...Woodward-Doering process is not a synthesis. It is a method of extracting quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...