Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson kept adding to its products now makes 80, boasts that the only one it ever had to drop was the automobile crank. It has helped develop such things as aircraft valves containing liquid sodium inside as a coolant; an engine valve cap that turns slightly with each strike, thus eliminating warping and pitting; an alcohol-water injection system to get more power out of gasoline; simplified valve tappets; improved fuel pumps and piston rings...
Research under the awards may be undertaken at any institution of higher learning in the United States, or in universities abroad that are approved by the Foundation. The Foundation was created in a bill signed by President Truman in 1950. Its aim is to develop and encourage basic research and education in the sciences, and to help increase the insufficient supply of scientists and engineers...
Obviously far superior to girls in other colleges, Annex girls should play not against Wellesley and Pembroke where they are wasting their time, but against Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Cornell. Only with these schools will they develop the type of experience they need. This is the right kind of match for Radcliffe girls...
...which it had pinned its biggest hopes for multimillion Government orders, had been turned down by the Air Force in favor of Boeing's B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). But Hopkins was making a calculated gamble on a longer-range future. Convair has the Government contract to develop an aircraft driven by atomic propulsion. Since Hopkins' own company already has the Navy's contract to build its two atomic submarines, the merger, in effect, made Hopkins the "Mr. Atom" of U.S. industry...
Sources of friction undoubtedly exist between Malenkov and Mao. Does Malenkov dare let Mao develop industrial independence? How hard is Moscow squeezing Peking economically to pay for its military help? Who keeps Manchuria? These sources of friction now engage the attention of Washington's psychological warriors. They also engage the minds of many who think that Mao will become a Tito if only the West is gentle with him. "Imagine," editorialized London's New Statesman and Nation last week, "that the Chinese Communists were given their rightful seat on the Security Council . . . Then the cement that holds...