Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden outbreak took only six days to develop epidemic fury, jumped from seven to 39 cases. A quick-striking, infectious virus disease, dengue (pro nounced denggy) is almost never fatal, but for a week or ten days it lays out its victims, causing high fever, rashes and painful swellings, severe pains in head, eyes, muscles, joints. Mosquitoes carry...
...since, but they have never licked the high-cost problem. Says an American oil industry expert: "If the master technicians of the world [the Germans] were unable to work out a competitive product by this coal hydrogenation process after almost 30 years of effort, if the British failed to develop an economic method with the help of huge government subsidies, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. will find the answer...
...suggested the possible establishment of a United Nations Foreign Development Authority to control the world's balance of trade. The foreign investments of the wealthy nations might be regulated by this board, whose purpose would be to develop the home industries of the poorer nations...
...Mountains. When he could not stand Nazi domination any longer, Batouvas joined other Greeks in Crete's mountain fastness and turned from a mild, slightly paunchy Greek into a hardbitten, tough guerrilla warrior. He grew lean, learned to live on one solid meal daily; he began to develop a consummate hatred for Germans and Italians. At first he was just a guerrilla among many hundreds. Then his head for business asserted itself. Today Manolis Batouvas is one of the three main guerrilla leaders on the island. Of course Batouvas is not his real name, just as George Petrakis...
...these soft, comfortable, protective principles, inducing decay, could not have been consistent with our great American pioneering tradition. Strength comes from practice and struggle, not from comfort and protection. Would a monopoly have been as bold in the development of equipment. . . ? What incentive would there have been for it to get up early and work late to develop its business? In the scales of American business, reasonable competition is good, it has made us strong and we want to keep it. We must continue to depend upon the strong yeast of competition to keep us growing...