Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's first nuclear depth-charge blasts at deep level to establish kill potential against deeply submerged enemy submarines, also at shallow-level to develop new-type attack against surface vessels. Target: a guinea-pig fleet of three destroyers, a submarine, a merchantman and ten barges...
...some $300 million a year. In exchange for such Soviet goods as coal, cellulose, manganese and oil, the Germans bowed to the Soviet request for such useful (but officially "nonstrategic") West German products as mining and steel equipment, machine tools, heavy forges. The Soviets also won the right to establish a regular trade mission (estimated staff: 60) in Cologne, though the West Germans fended off Russian demands for consulates in major cities. The Soviet "concession" in exchange: a verbal promise to give "benevolent" consideration to the repatriation of all Germans (and their families) who held citizenship before June...
Dividing twelve white Leghorn hens into three groups of four, Smith and Hale allowed the natural pecking orders to establish themselves. When each hen clearly understood its rank in society. Smith and Hale selected pairs of hens from each group. To the wings of the high-ranking hen of each pair, they attached wires from an electric-shock device. Then both were put in a pen with a single dish of grain...
...Nehrunian rule have produced no effective democratic opposition in India, inside the government or out. Taking advantage of this, India's Communists volunteered their way into the vacuum. Keenly recalling the national obloquy they earned by trying armed revolt in 1948, the Communists have set out to establish themselves as the chief "democratic alternative" to the Congress Party. Their professed aim is to climb to power peacefully, capturing India "seat by seat and state by state." Careful not to make direct attacks on popular Jawaharlal Nehru, the Communists portray him as the lone healthy voice in his own party...
Stabbing the air with his fingers, shaping if like a symphony conductor, gaunt Johannes Strijdom lived up to his billing. "We Afrikaners," he thundered, "believe that God put us on the southern tip of the African continent to establish, build and maintain white civilization. We must destroy any move toward bastardization. For this reason the government has introduced apartheid [racial segregation] into every possible sphere." At the opposition United Party, which draws its support largely from South Africa's 1,200,000 citizens of British descent, Strijdom leveled a deadly charge: "They are imperialists more concerned with British interests...