Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have the effect of reducing the chance of conception by about 30%, the problem would be immediately solved." Indian delegates favored voluntary sterilization of all Indian couples with more than three children; the congress itself unanimously advocated sterilization as an effective and important measure to check population growth...
...headquarters for the world-wide satellite optical tracking program Smithsonian attracted a great concentration of top scientists and mathematicians to its scattered facilities on Garden Street. Its growth has been so phenomenal that plans have been made by the University to construct and rent to Smithsonian a large center on Observatory Hill. The Harvard College Observatory itself has more personnel engaged in IGY work than any astronomical observatory in the country. The Observatory, with its special stations in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado, is the greatest single producer of solar data, vital to IGY research in solar-terrestrial phenomena, such...
Astronomers tend to ignore such seemingly unscientific efforts, but there is some degree of evidence that the sunspot cycle is connected with all sorts of things. Measurements of the growth rings of Arizona trees reveal that they grew faster during sunspot peaks, and such things as Canadian rabbits, Atlantic salmon and meningitis cases in the United States have all been found to go through cycles roughly equal in length to the sunspot cycle. Even in the stock market has been connected with sunspots. High and lows for both occurred...
Considering national security, Harris claimed that present policy "favors the bankbook over national survival." He explained, "defense spending is still below 1953 levels, while the Soviet's military threat has risen, and in contrast to rapid Soviet economic growth, this country's production has risen an average of only 1 1/2 per cent a year under the Republicans...
Hard Core. Behind this extraordinary tolerance is A. T. & T.'s conviction that revenues can be raised much faster by increasing the use of the phone rather than trying to expand geographically (it has all but ended such expansion) to keep up with population growth. A. T. A. T. & T.'s soft sell has a hard core. In streams of enticing ads it pushes telephone extensions ("What a beautiful way to save steps!"), phones in color (more than 8,000,000 in the U.S.), and frequent use of the long-distance wires to call Granny (three or four...