Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Wehrmacht at the English Channel, and beleaguered Britain waiting seemingly helpless and hopeless on the other side, Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back, which Windsor considered...
Fifty singers from the Summer School will present a concert on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, tonight at 9. The program, under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, professor of music at Stanford University, will include Renaissance madrigals and selections from opera and contemporary choral music, it was announced. Dorothy Crawford is scheduled to be soprano soloist, while Rafael Ferrer and Anne Chamberlain will accompany the chorus...
...catch up with the world's more industrialized nations. Countries such as India have adopted vast development programs that are based more on artificial paper goals than economic realities. But underdeveloped lands lack the basic industry to create new capital, as well as the savings institutions to channel what money there is into industry. The average Middle Easterner, says one Arab economist, "hides whatever money he acquires in a pillowcase-if he owns one." Nor is it easy to get capital abroad, since Western nations have more use for their capital at home than ever before...
...worldwide prosperity. In many nations, the shortage of money acts as a brake on hell-for-leather expansion programs that threaten to burst their economic seams. Often the general effect is to create a natural rationing system based on the laws of supply and demand, which tends to channel capital away from marginal projects into more important-and often more profitable-enterprises...
...British heard that the Germans had a "fog-pill" by which parachutists would float down in the semblance of a small cloud. Actually, at the time, Hitler's Chiefs of Staff were toying with a "War Crocodile"-a huge reinforced-concrete tank designed to crawl across the Channel on the sea floor. The public was officially warned against strange gossamer-like threads seen floating in the air. They turned out not to be a secret weapon but something to do with the mating of spiders...