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...Whereas General Zwicker's record of service to his country includes combat action which has brought him many decorations and honors, including the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters and Arrowhead, British Distinguished Service Order, French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre...
...restless and insatiable quest for knowledge. If a sound man hastily "rolled a loop" of track as an airplane passed over (so that the intruding racket could later be dubbed into parts of the scene shot after it had disappeared),Webb asked why. He watched stage carpenters make golden oak out of cheap pine sets with yellow paint and combs. He patiently learned about studio lights (brutes, seniors, juniors and inky-dinks, in order of their size), and the tricks of lighting eyes and burning out mike shadows...
...office wall, a framed anonymous quotation says: "Oh, God, don't let me weaken. Help me to continue on. And when I go down, let me go down like an oak tree felled by a woodsman...
...that will cut down McCarthy's power will have to be a lot sharper than those in the hands of Stevens & Co. last week. That mighty oak must be approached with caution; it is covered with Toxicodendron radicans, i.e., poison...
Metallurgists J. F. Nachman and W. F. Buehler of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md. were working on a hard, magnetic alloy called 16-Alfenol. They reported to their boss, Carroll W. Lufcy, that it was not only magnetic but heat-resistant. So the three of them set about emphasizing the alloy's unexpected heat resistance, avoiding scarce materials...