Word: betters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Foreign Trade Council in Manhattan, is that a new process of communication between East and West may be developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find...
...atomic age, the pushbutton big wars as well as the brushfire small wars must be fought with forces-in-being, cutting sharply the utility of the civilian reserves that were so effective in World War II and Korea. Active reserves of all three services are in better shape than they have been for generations; e.g., most of the Navy's 135,000 active reservists are organized in much-needed anti-submarine warfare units, but hundreds of thousands of dollars are wasted in keeping books on thousands of inactive reservists whose future use to the nation is highly doubtful...
...Technological Trap. For FAO's Binay Sen, the prime answer to the world's hunger lies not in birth rate or food giveaways but in the diffusion of advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or Africa to learn and adopt such techniques will, as Sen admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation...
...procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...generators. One of them will burn coal in a stream of compressed, preheated air. While passing through the flame, the air gets hotter, expands and rushes out of the furnace at high speed. A small amount of potassium chloride fed into it increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across it and is collected by two electrodes inside...