Word: building
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro ambassador's statement in London, the Dominican envoy there agreed that it was "most logical" for a country to build a force to defend its shores...
...very problem-unemployment-that Castro promises to attack through land reform. As Puerto Rico, Brazil and other Latin American states have discovered, the fastest, surest way to provide mass high-income employment is industrialization; all of Fidel Castro's measures so far have scared off the capital that builds factories. Last week, deeply concerned that for the masses his revolution is coming to equal joblessness. Castro announced that during the next six months he will spend $135 million on public works to build roads, parks, bridges, schools and hospitals...
...Baby's Formula? Pushing for adoption of live-virus vaccine in the U.S. is Lederle Laboratories, which last week announced that it will boost its live-virus vaccine outlay to $8,000,000, build new production and testing facilities to produce annually 40 million oral doses of vaccine that offer immunity to the three types of polio viruses (TIME, March 16). Lederle has tested the live-virus vaccine on 700,000 people, is hopeful that current tests in South America and the U.S. will prove its effectiveness and safety. Said Lederle General Manager Lyman C. Duncan...
...track by a remote-controlled locomotive to a special MAD (Maintenance, Assembly and Disassembly) shop, where mechanical hands will take it apart. The condition of its still deadly interior parts (examined by periscope, TV, or through thick, transparent shields) will tell the Los Alamos men much about how to build nuclear rockets that actually fly. The code names for them are ready: Dumbo, and then Condor...
...Laurance Rockefeller to buy two science-heavy organizations after the defense-spending cutback hit research in 1957. With these two-Physical Research Laboratories of Boston University and cash-shy Vectron. Inc. (electronics )-Itek began with a well-shaped organization (more than 100 scientists) that would have taken years to build. Though most of its work is classified, and identified only as "graphic retrieval,'' its stock soared from about $1.60 to $60 in a year, counting splits. Among other things, Itek (for "information technology") makes information-processing systems, works in photochemistry, electromechanics. Current sales: $30 million a year...