Word: infantability
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McKinley's Prayer. The Filipinos have reason to cheer the rise of Ramon Magsaysay-and the U.S. has reason to be a sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
Washington helped the infant republic with war damage dollars, war surplus, ECA bequests, RFC loans, millions in back pay to Filipino soldiers and guerrillas. Altogether the U.S., in six years, put $2 billion into the Philippines. But the money flowed in without proper planning, or proper safeguards. Instead of going into the mouths or onto the backs of Filipinos, U.S. surplus and relief goods slid from one speculator and profiteer to another. It was a poor trader who could not triple or quadruple his investment in pencils, tractors or derricks...
...developed a synthetic sow-milk called "Terralac," fortified with the antibiotic Terramycin. With Terralac, farmers can take baby pigs, which usually suckle for 56 days, away from the sow within 48 hours, prevent the newborn from being crushed by its clumsy mother. In experiments, Terralac cut down infant pig mortality to 5% (v. normal...
...girl like you-I've got a set of false teeth-and I want to have a son as soon as possible-will you share the life of a modest writer? . . . Will you be my wife?" Eighteen months later, in February 1944, Tanya Matthews, her husband, and their infant son flew out of the U.S.S.R. toward England and the freedom of the West...
...laying of the cornerstone three quarters of a century ago, was a ceremony complete with the presence of the Governor and the National Lancers of Massachusetts. Oliver Wendell Holmes dedicated a new poem to the infant hall, which the crowd sang to the tune of the Russian National Anthem of St. Petersburg. In its description of the scene, the Boston Advertiser wrote rapturously of "Sanders Theatre, of wondrous size, with ambulatory, vomitorium and proscenium not unlike those of classical antiquity...