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...there were encouraging reports that the Patino interests were about ready to settle with government negotiators on the big question of compensation. Such a deal, reported to provide for payment of 5% of net sales into a fund from which the former owners would be reimbursed, could set the pattern for a settlement with all shareholders...
...plan calls for a new united church : the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Its rules of administration would follow the pattern set by the three member churches, and its first officers would be elected by a combined General Assembly of all three churches meeting together. A 50-man commission would then integrate the administrative boards of the three churches. Similarly, mission work and church educational institutions would be turned over to the administration of the new united church...
...Hugo Sperrle, 68, German field marshal who directed the 1940 aerial blitz of London; in Munich. Massive, monocled and elaborately uniformed, Sperrle flashed almost as many medals as his boss Reich Marshal Hermann Goring. He helped organize the Luftwaffe, probably did as much as any man in setting the pattern for aerial combat in World War II. Judged not guilty of war crimes and "non-concerned" about Naziism, he lived out his days quietly in Landsberg...
...March of 1949, he and his little family spent two weeks in the surf and sunshine at Key West. During this time the Atlantic Treaty Pact was signed, and he communicated daily with Secretary of State Acheson and other Department officials. He followed this "work while you play" pattern throughout his seven years in office. Roughly twelve percent of his first three months as Chief Executive was spent at vacation retreats...
...every jet engine. Through a big advance in metallurgy, Thompson now makes such blades out of powdered iron and a copper alloy, eliminating a great deal of waste. It has also succeeded in casting incredibly intricate parts by pouring mercury into a die, freezing it and dipping the mercury pattern in liquid ceramic to form a mold. Then the mercury is let run out at room temperature, and parts are cast from the ceramic mold...