Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evaluating and updating his own. In SAC's underground headquarters at Offutt AFB near Omaha, teams of officers are already hatching war plans and weapons requirements for manned aircraft and ballistic missiles for next year and each successive year up to 1961. Out of its complex of laboratories, flight-test centers and missile firing ranges, Air Research and Development Command has let R. & D. contracts to no fewer than 160 universities and 1,520 industrial companies in the Air Force's traditional emphasis on private enterprise...
...line and its extensions, composed of air, sea and ground radar elements, circling the far approaches of the continent. ¶ A second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground and air combat commands, from Labrador and British Columbia to Florida and Southern California...
AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...
...early years of the 20th century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...
...tight control of almost all scientific research (at least in the physical sciences) stems from the nature of modern investigation. As research becomes more complex, it also becomes more expensive and shows less possibility of reaping a financial gain. Therefore the Department of Defense has become the primary patron of science in this country and has transplanted its military thinking from the battlefield to the laboratory...