Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discourage other powers from developing atomic bombs (experts estimate that no less than 20 nations could develop their own bombs in the next ten years), the U.S. was urging that the three present nuclear powers accept a cutoff date when production of nuclear weapons will cease everywhere, and all nuclear materials will thereafter be diverted to peaceful purposes...
Unsolicited Praise. The British brought gifts. Lloyd lost no time in announcing that Britain would provide nearly $6,000,000 in economic aid to develop the pact communications system. But the British had obviously become junior member of the pact, welcome but not encouraged to make too much noise. Undisputedly senior was the U.S., which emphasized the importance it attached to the meeting by sending Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson and Air Force Chief of Staff General Nate Twining, who is soon to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company for things it did in long years past...
...suggestion is that while the quality of Harvard-Radcliffe education is quite high, it may frequently be too "test-ridden" and fall to develop an inquiring, critical-mind. Sometimes it may only have filled this mind with a certain quantity of facts...
...child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...