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...efforts to divert the scientific minds of this country towards ever-increasing preoccupation with means of destruction, Dr. Seitz unwittingly joins his militaristic counterparts in the Kremlin in spreading the infection now ravishing the body of our tottering civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Perhaps the most important chapter in this book contains Smith's evaluation of Frederick Jackson Turner's hypothesis that the frontier, the point where civilization meets savagery, is the vital force in American history. Smith declares that the argarian emphasis of the theory, "has tended to divert attention from the problems created by industrialization." He attacks the agrarian tradition of Turner because it has focussed all attention on the agricultural interior of the continent and prevented recognition of the vital relationship of America to the world community. These assertions are carefully reasoned and supported by prodigious research. Although they...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: Buffalo Bill and Turner | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

...Federal Power Commission must approve any development, and the FPC, studying the situation since 1947, has its own $300 million project for public power. Its main feature: two and possibly three tunnels, starting three miles above Niagara Falls, which will divert water to one of two proposed Government plants at Lewiston, N.Y., five miles below the falls.*This development, said FPC, would make it possible to cut the region's power costs by one-third to one-half, and perhaps supply cheap power to northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. But the U.S. public utility industry is already closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Work -for Niagara | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...value of dances as a method of uniting embers of a class is questionable. Furthermore, they divert students from House loyalties, which are considerably more important to the college, and difficult to achieve at the best of times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class 'Unity' | 3/10/1950 | See Source »

...Duff was used to twisting the tail of Joe Grundy's powerful Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. He had taken on the P.M.A. as soon as he became governor in 1946, had licked them to a standstill ever since. He had outraged Grundymen by insisting that manufacturers purify or divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: What Kind of Party? | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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