Word: harnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia faces a severe shortage of grain. Drought and storms had heavily cut har vests in the Ukraine and the Volga region. The Kremlin's long-range remedy - Party Secretary Khrushchev's grandiose scheme for plowing up virgin land in Siberia and Kazakhstan - had not proved as painless as had been promised. Though an area greater than the total cultivated land of Great Britain had been plowed up, it had been done only by snatching technicians and tractors from West Russian farms, and when those ran out, by drafting men and women from their villages and factories. Then...
Techniques for Twitches. Before Landau was flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth...
With Studebaker Chairman Paul G. Hoffman and Studebaker President Har old Vance as board chairman and executive committee chairman of the new corporation, Nance has a top executive team that agrees with his own economy-minded approach. Studebaker's bosses have already started the ball rolling by persuading 8,500 workers at their South Bend plant to accept a 14% wage cut (TIME, Aug. 23). Jim Nance & Co. will :need every additional economy they can find. In 1954's auto race,* the Big Three have gobbled up 94% of the market, given notice of an even faster pace...
Died. Vito Marcantonio. 51. six-term Congressman from New York's East Har em; of a heart attack; on a rainy street in Manhattan. Tough, fiery little Vito fought his way up from East Side poverty, hung on to the fluttering coattails of Fiorello La Guardia, succeeded him in Congress in 1934 on a Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners...
...Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw a baby cerredge without wakin' the occupant...