Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month survey of Ontario's timber resources. He told of appalling waste from helter-skelter cutting, which left many a fallen tree to rot. Unless something drastic is done, said Expert Kennedy, Ontario's lumber industry "will continue to diminish in importance to such an extent that before 25 years it will be classed as a minor industry...
...finding the magic formula and writing it into the law of nations. The struggle for peace and security is a continuing one. The next few months may well be crucial in the formation of the public opinion that will guide Congress when it meets next year to determine the extent of American backing for various international undertakings...
...Britain), he proposed to miners that "there should be, as an emergency measure, for a limited period, an extra half-hour's work per day." To place and keep workers (including "spivs and other drones") in essential industries, "it will be necessary to resume to a limited extent the use of powers of direction." To reduce Britain's projected 1948 overseas military establishment of 1,087,000 men, Attlee proposed a cut of only 80,000 in the armed forces. Food purchases in dollars, he said, must be cut 40%, but he still spoke hopefully of avoiding cuts...
...tries to piece together the details of his death. Both deserve considerable credence. Trevor-Roper's book, the heart of which has already appeared in LIFE, is the report of the official British historian. Gisevius, a German, was rescued from Germany by the OSS, which thus, to some extent, vouches...
Atomic Age. As he faced the job, no one knew better than Lilienthal the extent of the uncharted wilderness that surrounded him. It was the strange, other-side-of-the-moon wilderness of the Atomic Age. He was not alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners...