Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim statistics, the scientists and the subcommittee concluded that the nation could and would survive-and the extent of survival would depend directly on the number of preparations made in advance. Inexpensive but effective civil defense-of which the U.S. now has practically none-"would save tens of millions of human lives," said Chairman Holifield. If every American family built its own basement shelter, added OCDM, atom deaths would be cut by 12 million and injuries by another 12 million. (OCDM is now distributing 50 million books showing how to construct a do-it-yourself shelter for $175.) Furthermore, said...
...level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree of incomprehension on both sides," he writes in Encounter, "is the kind of joke which has gone sour...
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...
...what he is talking about. A pilot since he was 20, he has flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics Administration, plus the safety-rule-making powers once held by the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...seemed terribly dull to be only one person at a time, and before long the unemployed impostor had another job. In the last two years he has had at least five of them: he served as a lieutenant warden in a Texas prison, a teacher among the Eskimos, a civil engineer in Yucatan, a couple of high school teachers. And in recent months, says Crichton, Demara has been working on what he gleefully calls "the biggest caper of them all"-for details, watch your local newspaper...