Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incidence of mental illness makes it imperative that every safeguard be established to insure that those individuals who become mentally ill will continue to have the needed support of their families and loved ones . . . There could be instances where a husband or wife with a mild mental illness would develop a much more serious illness with the knowledge that their spouse was obtaining a divorce...
Fifty Years to Go. Many of the big new plants promised at last week's Congress are to be built in the mountainous interior, as far away as possible from U.S. bomber bases. Among them, Planner Li expects to develop atomic-energy plants, built with "direct Soviet aid." Red China also plans to keep on spending far more than it can afford on guns, tanks and planes, "because the imperialists are still encircling China, and she must . . . liberate Taiwan." Hidden in Peking's budget for 1955 was a sizable increase in arms spending...
...Ohio State University, Drs. Henry M. Moser, John J. Dreher and Herbert Oyer, backed by the Air Force, are trying to develop a special ear microphone. They have found that when a speaker's mouth is covered by a sound-absorbing baffle, his speech can be heard, weakly but distinctly, through a stethoscope in one of his ears. Picked up with a microphone, ear speech can be amplified until it is as loud as desired. It has a rather "bright" sound, but is not very different from mouth speech...
...Anheuser-Busch also spends $550,000 annually breeding Clydesdale draft horses; Gus Busch sends them around the U.S. hitched to red Budweiser wagons, promoting beer in dry farm areas where Prohibition sentiment is still strong. His latest plan: to cross tiny Sicilian donkeys with even tinier Shetland ponies, thus develop the world's smallest mules to plug a 7-oz. "ladies'-size" Budweiser bottle...
ANTIBIOTICS INDUSTRY will get a long, hard look from the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC will investigate pricing policies in various drugs (profits vary from near zero to 400%), patents on drugs that the Government helped develop, and the decrease in competition...