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...Arthur Chester Millspaugh, political scientist and financial adviser, is making his second effort to reform Persia's national economy (he had the same job 21 years ago). Oil is Persia's principal resource, but Persians see little of it. Persia's oilfields are principally controlled by Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. The people depend on the land, and most of the under-cultivated, ill-used land belongs to the same absentee moguls who control the national finances...
Above all, he considered himself a scientist, which he was. In an era when "test pilot" was often a synonym for "daredevil," he persuaded manufacturers that the test pilot should be consulted before the plane was built. "You would not call in an architect after you had built a house," he said...
...well as his war work, and the military conversion of Harvard to a total war effort in which Conant played a major role, the article predicted that the Harvard President's name would soon come into the spotlight. "Keep an eye on Conant of Harvard," it said, "-- scientist, educator, and man of ideas worth listening...
...object of Hill's wrath was a North Carolinian, 59 years of age, a graduate of West Point in the class of 1827, and former Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th United States Infantry. A man of fine appearance and of pronounced patriotism, Gabriel Rains was at heart a scientist, and was more interested in explosives than in field command. In 1840, while campaigning against the Seminole Indians, he first had experimented with booby-traps. On the retreat from Yorktown he had planted several of these in the way of the Federals and thereby had delayed somewhat the pursuit...
...Russian scientist chopped through 50 feet of ice in the Altai mountains of Siberia, uncovered a log stable hewn by Bronze Age axes. In the stable were the well-preserved bodies of ten horses, saddled and bridled...