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...atom can ultimately move mountain ranges, drain seas, irrigate entire deserts, transmute poverty into plenty, misery into mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Philosophers' Stone | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...unknown person who shot and wounded Walter Reuther some years ago taken better aim, America would not now be headed straight down the drain. As a result of the recent negotiations, my present and future automobile will be British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...that they could produce safe vaccine consistently, in batch after batch. But this requirement was neither defined by P.H.S. nor was it enforced by the Government agency. As a result, manufacturers told P.H.S. only about the batches they considered safe, did not report on those that went down the drain as obviously dangerous. Hence, P.H.S. was not aware of how the odds were running against safe vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Premature & Crippled | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

While it faces a stronger and strengthening Western alliance, the Soviet Union also is plagued by home-grown problems. Its agricultural program is admittedly in serious trouble; its industry is seriously strained by the constant pressure of military production. Help to Communist China is a heavy drain; pledges to neutral lands are nagging overdue notes. Interlaced with and more important than these economic woes is the Soviet Union's political trouble. Inside the Kremlin, the struggle for power at the top still goes on; there is nothing in Marxist theory or Soviet history that can guide the Russian ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Policy That Paid | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...each state was to recruit a WAC company that would carry the state flag and wear the armband in training. Business was persuaded to help, e.g., Standard Oil Co. of Indiana sent out posters of "The Girl with the Star-Spangled Heart" instead of its old sales pitch to "Drain Old Oil Now." Enlistments rose to an average 3,000 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: My Best Soldiers | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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