Word: expended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to present plans, the money will be used here for medical, dental and public health studies. Columbia expects to use its share on work in nuclear, atomic and molecular physics while Yale will expend its finds for chemical and medical sciences...
...which usually sternly preaches that countries must live within their means, kept telling the Italian government that it was not living up to its means. ECA officials advised the government to relax credit to give industry a badly needed impetus, expend more ECA counterpart funds on public works to reduce unemployment. The government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president...
While atomic blows were exchanged, the Red army would engulf Europe. There is nothing yet in Europe that could dam the Red flood. U.S. atomic damage to Russia would be strategically effective only if the Red army were forced by large-scale fighting to expend its hoarded oil, ammunition and other materials. Preventive war in 1950 would mean that the Russians 1) could wreak terrible damage on the U.S., and 2) could take and hold Western Europe, which would be worth more to them than all the targets in Russia that the U.S. could destroy by atomic bombing...
...bomb exploded at ground level would expend much of its energy in digging a crater. Thus the destruction, although more devastating around the detonation point, would be limited to a smaller area than in the case of an air burst. A bomb exploded under water would also lose some of its blast effect, but would throw up an immense column of radioactive water, to contaminate everything on which it fell...
...Engineers, a fine crew, collapsed in the final stages of last week's opener and will be sure to expend their energy more carefully today...