Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics have pointed out, Snow agrees that Lindemann may indeed have acknowledged from the start that radar was an important weapon to develop for the defense of the British Isles. But, he counters, Lindemann almost fatally hampered the successful development of radar by assigning highest priority to his own gimmicks...
Ripped Walls. The picture was made entirely in New York City with little budgetary corner-cutting. The cast had three weeks' rehearsal before a camera rolled; scenes were done in original sequence so that the actors might have a chance to develop their roles naturally; except for a few scenes made outside an old Victorian house on The Bronx's City Island, the whole picture was shot in a complete house built on the sound stage...
...efforts are expended mainly in emerging nations, helping them to develop their own health services manned by their own doctors and nurses, teaching them to manufacture their own vaccines, drugs and orthopedic appliances. To confine the great plagues that are still endemic in the tropics and many temperate countries, WHO has disease fighters on hundreds of fronts in almost fourscore countries...
...Japan might have overcome its reputation for shoddy manufacturing long before it did. "The capability was always there in Japan," he says. "But it was channeled into things like Zero fighters and dreadnoughts." Canon got started in 1933 when Mitarai, then a practicing M.D., enlisted some technician friends to develop better optical equipment for hospitals. While they were about it, they turned out Japan's first 35-mm. camera, a near copy of the German Leica. Recalls Mitarai: "My associates had a really difficult time producing this prototype without infringing on German patents." After Pearl Harbor, Canon was among...
...Procter & Gamble, who have been spending twice as much on advertising as Germans normally do. Konrad Henkel, who shares control of his company with eleven relatives, believes he can offset U.S. advertising with German science, is steadily automating his plants, and has his chemists working with textile makers to develop fibers that will get cleaner quicker with Henkel detergents...