Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be pulled out of Japan the moment Japan becomes ready to defend itself; he did not think that the Soviet Union would invade Japan unless it could first convert it to Communism; he was quite sure that Japan would succeed in rebuilding its economy because it would never develop "the philosophy that dominates the thinking of so many white people-to do as little as possible...
...Because much of the route would be through thinly populated areas where there are no cash customers for gas, potential investors objected that Trans-Canada would have no income while the line was being built and, even after it was completed, would still have to develop its eastern market...
Business Career. According to a friend, Don Quarles has "one bad habit: hard work." He studied theoretical physics at Columbia while working full-time at Western Electric. Later, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, he wrote technical papers, e.g., Motion of Telephone Wires in Wind, helped to develop the coaxial cable, pioneered other telephone and TV equipment, directed the lab's vast World War II radar program. Usually he brought a fat briefcase home from work every evening to his green-shuttered home in Englewood, N.J. In 1952 he moved to New Mexico as president of Western Electric...
...microbes, which can knock troops out in no time (best example: the 1918-19 influenza pandemic). The lab has the Government's only polio diagnostic center. Says Dr. Smadel: "Our work ranges all the way from the fundamental and theoretical to the most practical. We can both develop theories and apply them. Aside from the Rockefeller Foundation, nobody else does research of this scope...
...grows up to be a spiv and live with a prostitute. Thelma grows up to marry an aging lawyer and develop arty airs at musicales. Stan's bitter cup is not full, however, until Amy. in a climacteric crisis, commits adultery with a red-haired traveling salesman. A tongue-tied Lear, Stan buries his sorrow in a drunken, big-city binge, winds up lying among empty crates in a side-street lot and spits at the "paper sky, quite flat, and white, and Godless...