Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike the atom bomb, they are of such a nature that smaller nations with limited industrial facilities are in a position to develop them...
...popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey, and squaws. The mountain men opened a territory...
...laid it down to the Inter-American Council of Production and Commerce at Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into low-profit farming and mining; import of U.S. machinery will be difficult because Europe can't pay for Brazilian goods in dollars...
Labor and business leaders must show "emotional maturity" if United States industrial relations are to develop properly, Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations asserted yesterday...
...Dean of Harvard College does not make policy himself, but in this important position, he can do a lot to encourage what he or the Faculty wants, Bender feels it a part of his job in the future to "develop a more responsible participating outlook on the part of the student." He can draw up no ukase to achieve this, nor will he offer a dogmatic statement so soon after taking office, but he thinks that encouragement through student organizations over a period of time will do the trick...