Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in Calcutta, India. Not only is the article illuminating, but it is packed with vivid descriptions of how life is lived in one of the big cities of the world; it would be providential if many people in our own big cities read it, and it would bring home to them how fortunate we are in this country-no matter how grievous the problems of our large cities seem...
...Lower East Side Puerto Ricans and Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city without fear and without consent of any illegally organized group...
This was a gallant performance and one well calculated to enhance Gomulka's prestige with the Polish people. But it was not practical politics. Khrushchev might hesitate to use military force against the Poles (who number 28 million against Hungary's 10 million), but he could well bring Poland to its knees in a matter of weeks by cutting off the raw materials on which the Polish economy depends. Accordingly, at week's end, Gomulka beat a retreat. The Nagy and Maleter executions, he declared, were "Hungary's internal affair," and "the attitude of the Yugoslav...
...helping set up worldwide standards. They have left the field largely to other nations, simply because many U.S. businessmen are unaware of the importance such standards play in world trade. This importance was emphasized last week as 1,000 delegates from 40 countries met at Harrogate, England, to bring the world closer to conformity on everything from screw threads to nuclear reactors. Eventually, their decisions will have repercussions from the board rooms of Krupp to the Kremlin, affect housewives from Minneapolis to Vladivostok...
Spurred on by four mid-air collisions costing 126 lives so far in 1958, Congress last week was pushing hard on a bill setting up a Federal Aviation Agency to exercise almost total control over U.S. air space, bring both military and civilian craft under strict ground control. To operate the airways, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is spending $1 billion to replace the current hodgepodge control with a semiautomatic, radar-based system. The trouble with the plan is its target date: 1963. With a lead-time of 18 months or more for complex radars, CAA is still waiting...