Word: drains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welding" operation, now widely used, has been successful in many cases. The surgeon, after turning the eyeball around, first punctures it in several places to drain the fluid between retina and choroid. Then he seals the two membranes together by heating them. The inflamed, swollen retina and choroid close up like inflated inner and outer tubes and eventually heal tightly together...
Europe's Communist scientists are dreadfully worried by the U.S. drain on the world's uranium supplies. Recently, the late Madame Marie Curie's son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Communist head of the French Government's atomic research program, uttered an atomic moan. The U.S., he said, has a monopoly of the world's "marketable" uranium...
...Stafford Cripps for a conference with U.S. Under Secretary of State Will Clayton on the leftovers of the U.S. loan. The shocking fact: if Britain keeps withdrawing funds at the present rate, nothing will be left by September. Two of the loan's agreements add to the-dollar drain: 1) the "nondiscrimination" clause, which forces the British to buy goods in the U.S., for dollars, which they might get elsewhere more expensively but for pounds; 2) the "sterling convertibility" clause, which forces the British to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June...
Britons had pinned high hopes on a successful trade deal with Moscow. To help ease the drain on Britain's U.S. dollar credits, they wanted grain and timber in exchange for British machinery. After weeks of tough bargaining, agreement seemed at last in sight...
...Card. Another possible drain on "Loan" dollars begins this week as Britain becomes obliged to convert into dollars some of the sterling credits held by foreigners (TIME, June...