Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monstrous Giveaway." Morse and his fellow liberals were trying to block an Administration bill to set up a corporation to develop and operate communications systems that utilize space satellites. As the bill emerged from the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, 50% of the stock would be sold to the public and 50% to companies. The corporation would in effect operate as a monopoly, but the public would be safeguarded against excessive rates by the Federal Communications Commission's rate-setting authority...
Exports: Cocoa, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $73. U.S. aid (1961 ): $1,400,000. Needs foreign aid to develop phosphate industry. Main trade ties with France. Ghana's claims to Togo are threat to stabilitv...
Wanted: More Boldness. Many foreign economic experts also believe that U.S. businessmen ought to be much more aggressive in budgeting for new plant and equipment and should start spending more on far-out research to develop new products. (Capital spending as a percentage of gross national product is currently 50% higher in Europe than in the U.S.). "For solid economic growth," says Dutch Economist Jan Pen, ''you need a shift from one sector to another-as in the past from textiles and railroads to electronics and chemicals. What America needs is a new growth sector." Sums up Yoshizane...
Although I disagree with Mr. Reid's generalization that no "high school youngsters know enough history to refute Marxist arguments," if he is correct, then who is at fault? All evidence points to our educators, who have not helped us to develop a sense of mental clarity in regard to issues of political morality (or any issues...
...altitude shot was billed by the Atomic Energy Commission as an experiment to discover what effect a powerful nuclear explosion above the atmosphere would have on radio communications. But its purpose was much broader and more important to the U.S. than that. The blast was principally designed to help develop a defense against large intercontinental missiles-and most of the observations made by thousands of official instruments are still military secrets. In fact, nonofficial observers report that radio communication was not blacked out for as long as expected. Tokyo's communications with the U.S. were back in working order...