Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comment on Bhabha's fore cast, AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss disclosed what most scientists already knew: the U.S. (like Russia and Britain) has long been experimenting with fusion power on "a moderate scale." But, he added, H-power is a long-range project, and, barring an early, unforeseen "breakthrough," uranium will be the standard reactor fuel for some time to come...
...their G.A.W. victory the seamen could give much of the credit to the breakthrough at Ford Motor Co. by Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers. As for the U.A.W. itself, it wasted no time in pressing on to the next automaker with an expiring contract: American Motors...
...figure among the shaven-headed, monocled Prussians, but Swordsman Zhukov could outfence any of them, as he later could outfence any Russian officer who served with him. From Von Seeckt, chief theorist of the new German army that was already forming, Zhukov learned the strategy and tactics of the "breakthrough...
...Academic Breakthrough. The weekly two-hour seminar is merely the showpiece of much previous hard work and organization. Said one second-year law student: "Discussion is only the top of the iceberg." In one or two of 15 subcommittees, each student puts in ten to 15 hours weekly analyzing the press, books and documents (e.g., Britain's white papers on defense, the 1954 U.S. budget), writing discussion papers on specific subjects (e.g., U.S. manpower requirements, tactical air power). A six-student team is appointed to prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they...
...experiment's progress, Professor Leach sees it only as a bare beginning. Says he: "Under our concept of civilian control of the military, the defense program should get the same expert, scholarly attention as the tax laws and the farm bills." Leach's special goal: an "academic breakthrough" to beginners' courses in national defense for undergraduates, special programs in all U.S. graduate schools...