Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tight security restrictions have already held back scientific advances substantially. The free world has many more trained scientific minds than the Soviet bloc and considerable superior resources. Yet the U.S. has tied one hand behind its back in refusing to exchange important data with allies...
...controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess of the men in padded shoes is demanding exhaustive security clearance for minor and non-sensitive posts: file clerks, janitors, and supply-room employees...
...were, of course, other reasons for choosing Benson Secretary of Agriculture. He knew about agriculture on all levels; he was an exceptional nominee in that he was acceptable to both the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmer's Union, the right and left wing of the farm bloc. He was recommended for the job by some very important Republicans: the late Senator Taft, Thomas Dewey and Milton Eisenhower. His appointment was also very advantageous to the Republican Party in the West. The Mormons are heavily concentrated in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Southern California and in most other Western...
...Soviet nation has been waging its campaign, Bergson said, while still maintaining the large degree of the economic independence nurtured by Stalin. The entire Soviet bloc, including Communist China, carries on only three percent of the world's trade outside the Soviet orbit...
...General Assembly approved a Wesern resolution asking for new negotiations in the five-nation U.N. disarmament subcommittee. Only the Soviet bloc opposed the resolution, making clear it has no intention of attending any more subcommittee meetings...