Word: john
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...Died. John Lenord Merrill, 83, cable tycoon (All American Cables & Radio, Inc., American Cable & Radio Corp.), who helped wire the two Americas together; in Manhattan...
Battleground. The defense of Bastogne as seen by a squad of its defenders; with Van Johnson, John Hodiak and George Murphy (TIME...
...Eastern Territory. Four years later he was nominated by the army's all-powerful High Council in London for the topmost army job: general of the International. It was a signal honor to be in the line of succession from William Booth to son Bramwell Booth,* to Edward John Higgins, to Bramwell's firebrand sister Evangeline,† to Australian-born George Lyndon Carpenter. But Pugmire turned it down; his heart, strained by years of work, travel and dedication, was not up to the job, which went to Albert W. T. Orsborn, son-in-law of the late General...
Reassured by this stability, Dr. John Graham and a team of Carnegie geologists went to work. A series of rock samples 10 million to 100 million years old which they took from flat-lying strata in the western U.S. proved to have a magnetism pointing in about the same direction as present-day compass needles. The conclusion was that when the rocks were laid down as silt, the earth's magnetic field was about as it is today...
Pocahontas is going into a competing business, said Alexander, because "our customers are thoroughly disgusted with interruptions year after year because of [John L.] Lewis' attitude. We are going into oil where oil is available in order to hold on to our business...