Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds of all the aid has gone to India. The original overall goals (17% more irrigated land, 10% more food produced, 67% more electricity generated have long since been attained, yet so vast is the area's increase in population (10 million annually) that living standards have risen only slightly...
Work v. Tears. Despite the influx, the vast Amazon has only a sprinkling of people. The League of Nations once reckoned that the basin could support 900 million people, but only a scant 4,000,000 occupy the area, two-thirds of them caboclos, who live in huts, fish and loll in hammocks. Japan is one source of newcomers who seem immune to the easy-living lethargy that strikes native Brazilians and Indians. At Tomé Acu, below Belém, the Japanese have helped to carve out one of the world's biggest pepper plantations. At nearby Guama...
...started with Maryland's extension courses for military students in the Washington area. When many students were shipped to Germany in 1949, Maryland professors followed them, setting up six centers to serve an unexpected crush of 1,851 applicants. Enrollment grew and grew. At 204 centers in 23 countries, more than 130,000 G.I.s and dependents have now been through the Maryland mill. (Up to 75% of a G.I.'s tuition is paid by the armed forces...
Pyrographite can be deposited in sheets up to ½ in-thick, can be shaped to form rocket nozzles and caps for nose cones. Both these parts get punishing heat concentrated on rather small areas. The beauty of Pyrographite is that it conducts heat away from these danger points as fast as copper can, but it does not permit nearly as much heat to pass through it. A Pyrographite nose cone, for instance, spreads the heat of air friction over a large area and permits it to be radiated harmlessly away, but it does not let heat strike through the cone...
...GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take...