Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help solve the fearful atomic riddle-to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life." To back up his words, Dwight Eisenhower made a concrete offer of nuclear materials to an international agency designed to develop peaceful uses of the atom...
ARGENTINE oil lands will soon be opened up to U.S. companies. To solve his nation's chronic fuel problem (60% imported), President Juan Perón is ready to sign a deal for Standard Oil of California to develop a 23,000-sq.-mi. tract in Santa Cruz Territory south of the 48th Parallel; Standard of California will sell its oil on the domestic market first, be able to export any surplus. Similar agreements totaling $200 million will also be signed this month with Shell Oil and Standard Oil (NJ.) to develop another huge tract in the Neuquen area...
...same kind of scuffle dusts up the question of how the surpluses shall be paid for. FOA and the State Department like arrangements that help foreign nations develop their resources, e.g., Peru's recent $3,630,000 loan from the U.S., to buy wheat and butter, included $2,000,000 to complete a huge irrigation system. The Defense Department and the Treasury prefer deals by which foreign currencies help defray U.S. costs abroad. But not surprisingly, countries where the U.S. has military bases or expensive economic missions figure that the U.S. will have to pay its expenses anyway...
...Asked Congress for $12 million to develop emergency civil-defense plans against H-bomb attacks and fall-outs...
...such progress, some workers may indeed be displaced by machines. But for every job lost, a dozen more interesting, better-paying jobs will open up in the making and servicing of machines. Says Tom Watson Sr.: "Automation will develop as all other forms of power. Primitive man had only his hands, then animal power, then wind power-windmills and sailing ships-then came steam and electric power, and gasoline and oil power, and now, atomic power. Not one of these powers ever canceled out the powers we already .had. In every development we made, the original power-manpower-became more...