Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cultivated voice that had once harangued the world over Berlin radio, Chandler read his statement. He had wanted to take the stand "to establish the truth of my beliefs, particularly as to the danger to my country from the conspiracy of world Jewry. My counsel thought me insane, I am not insane. . . . Time, however, will vindicate me. . . . If I must die because I dared speak the truth then...
...problem of freedom. Mathieu, a poor professor, has spent his whole life shaking off human responsibilities in a desire to be free, but he has only succeeded in making his life meaningless. Through the three-day span of the story, he sees many people, all of whom try to establish contact with him, and draw him into their society, to give his life a purpose. But though Mathieu would like to take the plunge, he is not convinced of the rightness of being a bourgeois or a communist; in a pathetic scene, he tries to be really incensed over...
...among thousands of apparently unrelated bits of "news" last week were two items as closely related as the horns of a dilemma. One was that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is going to establish a testing ground for atomic weapons somewhere in the Pacific. The other was a sentence spoken by a Republican presidential candidate, Harold Stassen: "The greatest basic competition of all history [Russia v. the U.S.] cannot really be decided...
...midst of war, the director of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development began plumping for a peacetime project. Last week, just before they adjourned, the House and Senate passed a bill to establish a National Science Foundation. To wise Yankee Scientist Vannevar Bush, it was the happy end of a two-year fight (TIME, July...
...Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar to the custom-free zones at New York and New Orleans (TIME, May 12). San Antonio hopes to become the foremost U.S.-Mexican trading post...