Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official representatives of all veterans groups in the nation, with the exception of the American Legion, will take part in the sessions, asking enactment of the act which would set up a National Housing Commission to develop coordinated housing policies and programs for the government...
...That the U.S. develop an air arm capable of dealing with possible atomic attack...
While most college men develop a natural aversion to the books they read in courses, many a way ward savant has a goodly supply of the slightly worn texts of bygone courses. In a land of publishers' plenty a student might afford to be casual about books, but in Central Europe a volume of American history or literature is almost as rare as a meal of 2000 calories...
...entered World War I, through efforts to maintain international peace and to defend our outspoken professors from outside interference, down more recently to specific advice on how a liberal should cast his national vote, the "policy" has been to admit as much freshness of thought as the Board could develop...
...research budget (now a skimpy $200,000 a year) needed a hefty boost. With about $10 million, Chief Forecaster Francis W. Reichelderfer figured that the bureau could give storm and snow clouds a deeper plumbing, learn a lot more about the mysteries of the upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer the mark...