Word: americae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secrets with France-a refusal that has unquestionably hampered French scientists in their effort to devise their own Abomb. In London, where 650 leading citizens of 14 NATO countries assembled in an Atlantic Congress to mull over the state of the alliance, French General Marcel Carpentier grumbled: "Britain and America have secrets and can use them as they wish. It is because of this double veto that France has decided to build its own Continental deterrent...
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...shift to private labels has often been aided by the national-brand makers, who offered profit margins so small that supermarkets were forced to turn to private brands. "Take the case of detergents," says pro-national-brands Paul Willis, president of Grocery Manufacturers of America. "There's as much as a 40?difference in price on some sizes at the distributor's level." The reason: manufacturers with more capacity than orders take on a job of putting out a big-volume private label without allocating their production costs realistically...
...must still approve. the merger is expected to go through in about five weeks. In pulling it off Helm will make the combined Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. (deposits of $3.8 billion) the third largest bank in New York, the fourth in the nation (after the Bank of America, $9.5 billion; New York's First National City. $6.8 billion; and Chase Manhattan. $6.4 billion...
...moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish instilled by Mama de Beauvoir has given Simone's intellectual life unquestionable integrity, but it also makes every clash between the ideal and the actual an emotional crisis. At the bar of reality, Simone is still a one-martini girl...