Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from his machines." But in the last decade Charles Lindbergh has "seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians...
Belter to Receive. Perhaps the Nizam could restrain Razvi and his fellow Moslem fanatics; but it is hard to tell what the Nizam will do next. Not much was known about the man upon whom the fate of India might depend. The 62-year-old Nizam has never traveled out of India, has left his domain only twice in the past 15 years-once to Delhi and once to Calcutta. Now he ventures out of his palace only on two occasions: each afternoon at 4:20 he visits his mother's tomb, every Friday he prays at a public...
...development. Was this what had become of "the Third Empire," the one that was to replace India and Burma as a base of Britain's prosperity and power? Only last year, Sir Stafford Cripps had said: "The whole future of the sterling group and its ability to survive depend on a quick and extensive development of our African resources...
...Hours for Lunch. What devaluation means to the average Mexican is something else. With devaluation, prices of imported articles go up forthwith. Then up go prices of domestic articles which depend on foreign raw materials. Prices of purely domestic articles follow suit, because even tortilla vendors would like to own a radio...
...type that comes into use will depend largely on the supply of uranium. If uranium is cheap and plentiful, it will be used more or less in the natural state. If uranium proves scarce, the supply can be eked out by "breeding." A reactor will be surrounded by a blanket of thorium or the plentiful but nonfissionable uranium isotope, U-238. When these absorb excess neutrons from the reaction, they turn into fissionable plutonium...