Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unknown point" along the Canadian border. At home in Russia he left his wife, son, married daughter-possibly as insurance of his loyalty. His mission: ferreting out U.S. defense secrets, especially in atomic energy, by a variety of means-including efforts to subvert key U.S. service personnel...
...step. It was devaluation, but with a difference. The franc was devalued to 420 to the dollar in all tourist transactions. Imports in effect would cost 20% more, except on those imports deemed vital to the continuing expansion of French industry. On these "exceptions," such as fuel and key raw materials (wool, cotton and steel products), accounting for about 60% of French imports, the rate would remain 350 to the dollar. The calculated effect: a cut in import spending. Next, to give France a chance to recoup its reserves by selling more in world markets. Gaillard granted a 20% premium...
Public Works. Prosperity is a key weapon in President Fulgencio Batista's struggle to remain in office. When the strongman moved into the presidential palace in 1952, he inherited an economy weakened by a huge sugar surplus that was depressing world prices. Batista slapped on acreage quotas, gradually unloaded the excess, even shipping sugar to the U.S.S.R. Prices started a gradual climb, now stand 30% higher than in 1953. He imposed greater discipline on the country's labor unions, granted wide tax and tariff concessions to new industry. In a calculated gamble, he began spending part...
...dodged around this difficulty by altering the quality of the signal itself. Details of the alteration are still secret. But in effect the scientists added an ingredient to the signal that can be readily identified against background interference picked up by their receiver. "It's a lock and key system," explains Dr. John H. Bose of Columbia's Electronics Research Laboratories. "We know what's locked up in the signal, and our receiver has the key...
Such is the regard in which he is held in the Senate that he is continually nominated for key bipartisan jobs-flying around the world to inspect World War II battle points, skillfully presiding over the explosive, eight-week Senate investigation into Harry Truman's firing of Douglas MacArthur, etc. Twice-in 1951 and 1953-the Senate Democratic leadership was offered him, and twice he gracefully declined. "I'm more concerned with my own thinking," he said, "than with the Democratic Party nationally...