Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vyacheslav Molotov had come armed with all the tools and tricks of the trade he works so well. To despairing France he hinted broadly that a conference with Red China might produce an end to the blood drain of Indo-China. For straitened Britain he depicted a landscape fruity with profitable trade behind the Iron Curtain. "Only a few countries," said he, with a glance at Dulles, "don't want to trade with Russia and China. Most...
...many sound ideas and policies at the University which are still struggling and need development. The compulsory tutorial system and basic General Education are two we have discussed. And encompassing most of these are the almost unsolvable dilemmas of increasing costs and decreasing sources of private income, which drain the efficacy from buildings and programs, and, even at the nation's wealthiest University, submerge plans for expansion in the problems of keeping up what now exists...
...difficulty is that the military forces now in being were brought into place under the earlier and evidently now-discarded assumption. This country has today some 3,500,000 men & women in the three military services . . . There is already a heavy drain on American youth. Extended indefinitely, it could be a strangling weight on American society...
...remove their industries, and above all, their man power, their skills and abilities, their industries, and above all their devotion to freedom into the neutral camp. Laying aside the moral wretchedness and the short-sightedness of such a course, it is still fool-hardy: for, while increasing the drain on America's men and money, it would not deter the China trade in the slightest...
...Nebraska's Republican Representative Carl Curtis, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, fear that the nation's sharply reduced death rate, will, within fifteen years, make us a nation of old people living on government insurance. The fund would soon be exhausted they feel, and the subsequent drain on national income would be catastrophic. Their answer is a sharp reduction in benefits...