Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel Buckley,' I said, 'you British believe in capital; we believe in capitalism. . . . With us the initiative of the individual comes first; and capital . . . comes second. You put capital and security of income first. You are astonished because a large Liverpool company can develop in 80 years from ?50,000; we would be astonished if a large Chicago company had that much capital 80 years ago or even existed...
More interested than any other power was the Soviet Union. "We do not mind," said a Soviet diplomat to a Chinese diplomat a decade ago, "if you Chinese develop Turkestan. But if you permit Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves." The Soviet Union suspected Japanese designs on Soviet Central Asia itself. Also, in Russia's mind there lingered the ancient Czarist fear of British influence working out from India. To the Russians, it seemed that the British Consulate at Kashgar might be almost as dangerous as the reported Japanese advisers of Ma Chung...
...Soviet Union this event began a phase of foreign policy that continues to this day: protection of Soviet frontiers by the penetration and occupation of border areas. That Russia was able to penetrate and later develop her interest in a region so important, so vast, with so little knowledge of the move reaching the outside world, seems unbelievable in the 20th Century. But it happened...
Nearly everybody in the U.S. harbors organisms of trench mouth, may develop the disease if his resistance gets too low from poor nutrition or a bender. Then a bacillus and a spirochete (and sometimes other mouth germs) work together to produce tender, bleeding gums (medical name: Vincent's stomatitis) or throat and tonsil infections (medical name: Vincent's angina). Mouthwashing with hydrogen peroxide is one of the commonest treatments. But treatment usually goes on & on in serious cases...
Swedish-born, 63-year-old Gus Swebilius is among the world's great authorities on guns-he helped Inventor John Moses Browning develop his famed gun in World War I. He took a $12,000,000 British rush order for machine guns back in 1940, when no one else would touch it. With no tools, and very little plant (his total capital was a mere $65,000), he got into production in less than six months v. a normal time of 18 months, using ancient tools begged & borrowed from back-alley plants all over...