Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast manufacturer, now employing 16,200, expects to be down within one year to 360, all that his commercial contracts justify. The 14 major manufacturers, who built 96,000 military planes in 1944, last year built only 1,330. This year they are down to the 100-a-month level...
...Spaniards in Potosi, Bolivia (14,000 feet) produced a single child which lived more than a fortnight. The high Andes had no self-perpetuating white population until Spaniards born at intermediate altitudes moved up the slopes. Americans living at high mining camps today send their wives down to sea level as soon as they become pregnant...
...Indians, Dr. Monge found, get their resistance to altitude from definite physical differences. Their lungs are bigger than normal, with more blood vessels in them. Their blood is in greater volume and contains more oxygen per unit. Their hearts can do 12% more work than the hearts of sea-level men. Their nerve cells are less sensitive to anoxia (oxygen starvation...
Beacon in a Fog. While most other Protestant publications were displaying their intellectual poverty either by clinging stubbornly to dogma or retreating headlong before the advance of secularism, the Christian Century remained stimulating and profound; it eventually became a beacon of level-headedness in a fog of misty thinking...
...ideas on the pedestrian difficulties of integrating a young organization with its community environment. "Successful Chapter Meetings," "How to Raise Funds Locally," and "Techniques of Recruiting New Members" typify the topics for panel discussion. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.'s Saturday morning address on housing will stress action on the local level...