Word: globally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...global scale, the conflict of man against man means World War III. Nationalism is today "the chief force making for the extermination of the human race." The Russell solution: "A single Government for the whole planet." But he concedes that "world Government is not possible unless Communism is overthrown or conquers the whole world." No friend of the Soviet system, Russell prefers the first alternative, but he feels that the Iron Curtain might melt quicker before a flow of Western goods than a flow of invective...
...billion annual U.S. defense budgets. When military parity is reached, he said, the world would enter a higher, "ten dollar" kind of struggle-between opposing economic, moral and intellectual ideas. "It will be long, dreary and expensive," Ike admitted, but "far better than having to fight a long, exhaustive global war-make no mistake about that...
...global gamble for oil, everyone knows that U.S. companies are cashing in the biggest jackpot in their history. But few realize the staggering size of the bets required to back up a winning hand. Last week Gulf Oil Corp., fifth biggest in the industry, provided a prime example. It announced that it will spend another $200 million to expand its refining and manufacturing operations, bringing its total expansion since war's end to $1 billion, one-twelfth of the whole U.S. industry's postwar investments. With such huge costs for hunting and producing oil, not even the giants...
...Creole and Royal Dutch Shell outrank Gulf's Mene Grande, to Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where Gulf and Britain's Anglo-Iranian share more than 11 billion bbls. of oil reserves. Under him, Gulf got the prospecting rights to all of Denmark, and his global marketing and producing apparatus embraced subsidiaries through most of Europe, Africa and Brazil, plus proven U.S. reserves of 1.3 billion bbls...
...pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal for atomic disarmament in return for a $50 billion program of global aid, to include the Russians...