Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is some danger that such early-crying babies will drown in the womb's fluid, says Dr. Russell, but this risk is much smaller than the danger of birth trauma that may be caused by attempts to hasten delivery. Considering the long rehearsal and preparation for birth that infants undergo, says Dr. Russell, the surprising fact is that more babies do not begin to wail in the womb...
...harvest never looked worse. Farmers accustomed to work under the eye of the U.B. (security police) are leaving much of the potato and sugar-beet crop in ground this winter. Thousands of collective farms, no longer under police supervision, have been abandoned, their equipment and animals stolen as farmers hasten to rebuild their own farms. In a country which normally imports up to 1,500,000 tons of grain a year, and where the worker spends 90% of his wages on food, a food crisis threatens. The situation is worst in the western lands, formerly German, where the Polish farmers...
...observer not long ago, "is dying, and there are three vultures waiting to pick her bones." Hovering closest of all was Israel, which four times in the last month has sent regular army units smashing into Jordan on bloody "retaliatory raids" whose only logical purpose seemed to be to hasten Jordan's disintegration...
Virtually all manufacturers are trying to hasten TV's rainbow age with simpler set design and cheaper tubes that may pare as much as $100 from the cost of a color receiver. Bigger cuts will not be forthcoming until the industry can sell at least 1,000,000 sets a year, the point at which it expects to make a profit. For the record, the industry now expects to top that mark...
...hasten the flow of technology from laboratory to living room, some 3,000 U.S. companies today have their own research facilities, employ 500,000 research workers, including 100,000 scientists. Across the U.S., new research plants are springing up almost as fast as factories. In the past two months alone, General Motors dedicated its $100 million Technical Center in Detroit; U.S. Steel opened a $10 million laboratory at Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological...