Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolize a great and striking change in world diplomacy. At No. 9, John Adams was a scarcely tolerated rebel whose main job was to keep the U.S. out of Europe's troubles. At No. 6, even though he was a dogged Anglophile, Walter Page was but a second-level member of London's diplomatic corps in an age when most Americans still thought of international diplomacy with all the repugnance of a Victorian lady contemplating...
...convertibility provisions of the British loan. He had already helped lay down the occupation policy for Germany as a special adviser to General Lucius Clay in 1945. As much as any man, he did the spadework for the new U.S. policy in Germany (by talking France into raising the level of industry; by recommending increased U.S. supervision in the Ruhr in return for more U.S. dollars...
...there was more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
...Connected Vessels." Meanwhile, the regime is building its strength for that eventual struggle by weakening everything else in Poland. A scientist put it to me: "All Polish life is being lowered to the Russian level by the law of connected vessels."† A prime factor in the Red drive for more & more power is the secret police, which last week had its 1947 budget of $170 million upped to $230 million...
...winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis, the McDonell Aircraft Corp. put the world's first ramjet helicopter* through its paces for the U.S. Air Force. In test flights, the 310-lb. "flying bike" readily lifted an additional 300 Ibs. and attained a speed of 50 m.p.h. To the Air Force...