Word: aberdeen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ideas that look promising are handed on to every branch which may be interested. When they have made all their recommendations, O.T.C. gives its approval for pilot models, and they are sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland...
There, under the supervision of hardboiled, West Point-trained Major General Charles T. Harris, every gun or vehicle is exhaustively tested and compared with enemy weapons in Aberdeen's museum of foreign material. Then a number of the weapons are made and sent overseas for trial in combat. Not until final revisions are made does Ordnance order mass production...
Ever since the Ralph Smith Farms of Chillicothe, Mo. bought an Aberdeen-Angus bull for a record $40,000 last March, the American Hereford Association had hoped for high-priced bidding on Herefords at Denver. But few would have bet that such a fabulous price could be topped, even in a boom year...
...authored by TIME Radio Programs Department's director, Frank Callan Norris, a TIME Inc. staffman ever since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...