Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Frank, an anti-dog man, replied in a Post column: "Should the law pass, [doglovers] say, thousands of dogs, all named 'Rusty,' will develop cardiac conditions and die brokenhearted . . . The insidious dog propaganda machine . . . would make you believe any man who has a reverent dislike for dogs is a rotter who would water his children's milk to cut down on his overhead. Why should a dog with whom I have nothing in common . . . be given the right to bound over me and lick my face? Why should I walk along a darkened street with...
...proposed him for Secretary-General. The-first rumors reached him in his Stockholm apartment one night in 1952, but thinking it was a joke, he replied: "Amused but not interested." Then came confirmation from the U.N. "It was like the draft," he says: looking back. "But an obligation can develop into a privilege, and it really...
Since the Air Force is not in the business of warning the general public, the Weather Bureau set up a "severe-weather warning center" in Washington in 1952 to develop the Tinker Field system. Moved to Kansas City in 1954, it now issues warnings two to four hours in advance, spotting about 70% of the tornadoes within 150 miles of the warning area...
...years after the Lucas gusher blew in, Pattillo Higgins worked to develop Texas oil lands, made a comfortable living at it, although he never became the big oil baron that he might have been. Through the years, he never lost his urge to prospect for oil. When he was nearly 90, he was still setting out in his old model A with pick and shovel, to probe among the rocks...
...House of Representatives has passed a $6,000,000 appropriation to develop a low-cost method of converting sea water, thus provide thirsty cities, Los Angeles, Houston, New York and others, with unlimited supplies; it is considering a bill to authorize longterm, interest-free loans (up to $5,000,000) to local groups that want to build small dams. But Congress has left the Army Engineers with an $8.5 billion backlog of flood-control and water-storage projects. Only last week the House Appropriations Committee slashed $48 million from President Eisenhower's $512 million budget for water projects next...