Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy water and other pile materials. No uranium had been mined as yet, but fairly large deposits had been found in central Sweden. They were low grade, containing less than half a pound of uranium per ton of ore. Swedish uranium would be expensive, but cost might be no barrier if richer deposits in luckier countries were kept away from the open market...
This was the main battleground of U.S. food production-enormous plains stretching without a relieving ripple beyond vision; rolling prairies, like the heaving surface of the ocean congealed to earth; vast uplands lifting slowly with no barrier but a barbed-wire fence to the terminal barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In good years, this vast food factory poured out some 800 million bu. of wheat, some 2,800 million bu. of corn, 1,200 million bu. of oats, 63 million hogs, 33 million beef cattle, 36 million sheep, 82 million lbs. of milk, 3,200 million lbs. of butterfat...
What, No Scoops? Authors Leigh & White are critical of the "slave-press" countries, but believe that the barrier-breaking problem "is not made easier by the fact . . . that the so-called 'free press' countries sometimes preach more zealously than they practice. . . . What newspapermen really want is what Kent Cooper, executive director of the A. P., calls 'the right to roam the world at will, writing freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will...
Last fortnight Manhattan's Eastern Sound Studios practically cleared the barrier with a new and amazingly good method of dubbing. Evidence: Spellbound in Spanish...
...fields-South America, Europe, Asia-look green to U.S. moviemakers. But there are many fences to jump. One of the highest: the language barrier. Subtitles are only half an answer. Much of the potential audience is illiterate. Dubbing in a translator's voice for the actor's is not much better. The actor's lips say one thing, another comes...