Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a basic change in its official policy toward China. The State Department, however, has decided to keep this change a secret, even from the Chinese. In effect, the U.S. do-nothing policy remains unchanged. This is diplomacy at such a high level that it is invisible from the earth...
Italy reported a rise in industrial production and stabilization of the lira. Britain's rundown industrial machine was gradually winding up again. In two months, production in Western Germany climbed 20%, bringing it to 60% of the 1936 level. More important, Ruhr iron and steel production set a new postwar record...
...first efforts of the four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdown-so complete that immediate suspicion arose that the Russian commander, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, was merely stalling. While the Berlin talks were going on, the Communists tried crassly and unsuccessfully to increase their stranglehold on the city (see below...
Exceeding the speed of sound in a brief power dive is not the same thing as flying continuously faster than sound in level flight. U.S. planes are rumored to have done it too. But if they have, the military has chosen to keep...
...greatest present danger from science-induced increase in population is in the Orient. ". . . Relatively inexpensive health services [have reduced] death from epidemic diseases, even though the level of living . . . rose very little...