Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal savings or tapped friends. Cash came from such risk-minded organizations as American Research & Development Corp., which sponsored many science companies (High Voltage, Tracerlab), and from individual investor groups such as those of Laurance Rockefeller, who now is sponsoring one of 128's newest, Geophysics Corp. of America. As the prototype models succeeded, the young companies outgrew their quarters and moved "out to the highway...
...IMAGE OF AMERICA (277 pp.)-R. L. Bruckberger-Viking...
...America, you're better...
...Image of America is a kind of missionary tract for disbelieving Europeans: "There are those who have begun to despair of the West. It is for them that I am writing . . . Either America is the hope of the world or it is nothing...
...Faith to Sell. Why are these lessons neglected and demeaned in the contemporary world? The U.S.. Bruckberger argues, has forgotten how to sell itself. The image of America is marred by the treatment of the Negro and by the fact that the U.S. calls itself "capitalist," a word much of the world finds synonymous with exploitation. Yet it is not Marxist theory that enables Russia and China to pose as saviors of underdeveloped lands but the application of U.S. technology. As Bruckberger sees it, the U.S. should back its know-how with a proselytizing faith...