Word: containment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next year's Freshmen will be the first since 1941 to have a Register. The book will, as before the war, contain pictures of the Class of 1952 and brief biographies...
...Council has three times vetoed the efforts of the Council to deal with the situation. This Assembly cannot stand by as a mere spectator while a member of the United Nations is endangered by attacks. "The United States delegation will, therefore, submit to the Assembly a resolution which will contain a finding of responsibility; call upon Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to cease and desist from rendering further assistance or support to the guerrillas in Greece." The resolution would establish a commission "to make appropriate recommendations to the states concerned...
...Dirac theory predicts, among many other things, that hydrogen atoms can exist in two different "states"-one stable, the other unstable-which contain the same amount of energy. Lamb & Retherford checked up with ultrashort radio waves (war-developed for radar), and found that this prediction was not correct...
...encountered Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Steep Rock looked like the kind of big business that Eaton likes. In Ontario, some 70 miles north of the famed Mesabi range, Steep Rock owned fabulously rich iron ore lands with proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started his big planning...
...prisoners are there in Russia? After compiling a list of 125 camps, scattered from Murmansk to Vladivostok, he has to confess that the catalogue is far from complete. But it is by far the biggest list yet compiled. Examining all estimates, Dallin concludes that Soviet slave-labor camps contain not less than 12,000,000 men, women & children. But he cites other estimates whose figures have soared as high as 30 million. Two of the biggest slave-labor camps: Solovetski Island in the White Sea, which has been in business since 1923, and Dalstroy's camps in the Kolyma...