Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, said Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby last week, the latest U.S. H-bomb tests have helped to develop a weapon with a lower rate of fallout contamination...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...
...more students were allowed to work independent of tight course restrictions, they would be able to develop themselves much more fully than is customarily possible now, he felt...
...race to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis, two rivals were front-runners : the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29, 1954) and the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin. Dr. Salk won with a vaccine made of virus that is at first virulent (capable of causing severe disease) but is then killed with formaldehyde. This vaccine has to be injected in three spaced doses...
Back to the Bazaar. No expert in the field believes more strongly in the future of shopping centers than Jim Rouse, whose Baltimore mortgage-banking and research firm has helped develop 33 shopping centers from Toronto to Omaha. Through complex market research Rouse, who has a part-interest in six of the centers he has developed, not only decides where to build a new shopping center but can estimate in advance the revenue per sq. ft. It took him seven years and 4,000 separate mathematical calculations to decide on the exact location of Mondawmin, where the anticipated revenue...