Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfolded in a staggering display of brains and machinery. Nobody topped the U.S. effort, a hugely successful reactor exhibit spiced with news that the world's first controlled thermonuclear reaction may have been achieved at Los Alamos. For a report on one of the biggest scientific meetings ever held, see SCIENCE, Monster Conference...
...school integration crisis, the traditional lines of basic national conflict were hardening around the South. The conflict: states rights v. federal law. In the South last week, as it had been through plantation growth, secession, civil war, surrender, reconstruction and recovery, states' rights was the legalistic bond that held most Southerners together. "We live in a federated system," said Virginia's courtly Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. in Richmond, "in which the Federal Government has no powers other than those delegated by the states." "It must be remembered," said Arkansas' rabblerousing Governor Orval Faubus in Little Rock...
...Hankow in the 19205. There he teamed up with another French adventurer, Jean Tatibouet. Together De Bisschop and Tatibouet built a Chinese junk and for two years cruised the Pacific and Indian Oceans. They lived eight months among Papuan cannibals, were briefly jailed as suspected spies in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. It was only days after they put to sea again that they discovered the Japanese had punctured all their cans of food in a search for contraband. Heaving the rotting" food overboard, they lived for a month on a few fish and a soup made of axle grease...
...estate taxes over ten years at 4% interest. Previously, some small, closely held corporations had to be sold because estate taxes fell in a single year...
SOVIET STEEL PRODUCTION spurted 8% to 30 million tons in first half of 1957, world's biggest gain by far, says U.S. Commerce Department. Meantime, other nations held fairly steady, except U.S., which plunged 37% to 38 million...