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Word: delayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...list if the other nations agreed to tighten the escape clauses. But in three weeks of talk the British were adamant. France, West Germany and Japan were equally eager but not so outspoken. The U.S. argued that though China might get the same goods anyway through Russia, the added delay and cost retarded Chinese industrialization and imposed a strain on the trans-Siberian Railroad. The British retorted that most Western goods are transshipped by sea at Gdynia, Poland, are sent in Communist bottoms to Shanghai, bypassing Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Battering Ram | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...HIGHWAY PROGRAM will probably be expanded by Congress this session to meet states' requests for 13,500 additional miles of road financed 90% by Federal Government. Senate subcommittee voted to boost planned 41,000-mile highway net to 48,000 miles add $15.4 billion to cost, delay completion from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

CLAIM: a second antibiotic may delay the emergence of bacteria which are resistant to the first antibiotic. ANSWER: this may be true in-test tubes, but generally there is no proof that it works in human patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Combination Dangers | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...file, Virginia's Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Joint Defense Production Committee, had asked ODM not to grant the write-off until the committee investigated. In granting the award, ODM Director Gordon Gray said that no commitment had been made to the committee, attributed the delay to the fact that the Hells Canyon case was bogged down in litigation until the Supreme Court ruling. But since Idaho Power had already gone ahead with construction to the extent of $19.5 million, that explanation seemed tenuous at best. Whatever the reasons for the delay, it had effectively eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Dam Flap | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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