Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least and at last beginning to think about Asia. Before he left for Paris, Acheson, after some prodding from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, had ordered Policy-Planner George Kennan to work on the problem. Last week Kennan handed his boss the first tentative outline of what might be done...
...start toward retrieving at least a part of a lost position. Time, and the Russian tide, were working against the Western nations in Asia. What had to be done had to be done fast...
Eggs & Tubes. Another type of testing is done on eggs. A girl technician examines a fertile egg under a strong light, finds the developing embryo, and cuts a square hole in the shell above it. She plants a bit of cancer on the embryo, and seals the hole with a glass window stuck on with wax. The egg is put in an incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting...
...sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something" was finally being done to deconcentrate the cartels...
...They were masterly first books; the poet's own obscurity had delayed them until he was almost 40, his early experience digested, his resolutions tempered, his vanity under control, his craft long practiced and well in hand. He had wrought and sweated to make himself intelligible, and had done it well enough by that time to know that the results would last. I shall be telling this with a sigh