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...before the Americans arrived with their atomic bombs, occupation army and MacArthur's new constitution. For 70 remarkable years after Commodore Perry steamed into Uraga Harbor, Japan, under the enlightened reign of Emperor Meiji, force-fed itself on all the Western notions, inventions, techniques and customs it could absorb...
Premier Papagos' government has been slow in working out plans. U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon has kept an anxious eye on the situation, and Washington has been urged to absorb as many of the repatriates as possible under the Greek quota (17,000 a year), and to chip in with money if the Greek government can figure out a workable plan...
...forest, and "learned more about the dynamics of the district than I'd ever known." He learned the need for weeding and care of the timberlands: acres and acres of his domain were useless, some trees as old as 800 years, others choked to death. McCullough had to absorb the hard facts of the lumber industry-how to figure permissible profits (12%), write newspaper ads, conduct bidding and police logging. He had to plan the cultivation of crops that might take 120 years to harvest. And he was profoundly impressed by what he learned: "Now that...
...still flying, part of the time in jets). He also knew engineering. He was a natural choice to head the Navy's Norfolk test station in 1930. At Norfolk he developed the hydraulic arresting gear for carrier landings; he helped devise sturdier seaplane hulls, special tires to absorb landing impact, landing lights and releasing hooks...
...recovery must not be jeopardized by overemphasis of speculative activity." ¶ Labor strife might become a problem this year: "History tells us that industrial disputes have usually been more frequent in periods of expansion than in periods of contraction." ¶ Pension plans, which now cover 12 million workers and absorb $3 billion a year, are a growing sociological and economic influence. Government studies, said the report, may learn more about their impact on worker mobility, spending habits and investment trends...