Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic Aid. The new program offers long-term aid on a loan basis to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a Development Loan Fund, to replace former handout-style grants, through which the U.S. will be able to channel $500 million in fiscal 1958 and $750 million in both fiscal 1959 and 1960 into basic foreign-growth projects such as roads, dams, utilities, "the sinews of economic strength...
Korea is a case in point: there the lack of any sound method to enforce the 1953 armistice agreement has led to so many Communist violations that the U.S. is now considering supplying U.S. forces in the Republic of Korea with nuclear weapons to equalize the Communist buildup of arms and airfields in North Korea...
...Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt's work...
Researcher Akerfeldt is clearly over that hurdle: in a jampacked meeting last week U.S. researchers said that they had duplicated his method with minor variations, adding a chemical called DPP (for N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylene diamine) to serum specimens and getting the red reaction from patients with serious mental illnesses and some other diseases. (One notable exception: patients who have had schizophrenia a long time.) Most promising positive use: the reaction seems to be clearest in children, whose emotional disorders are especially hard to diagnose-and who are not likely to have such misleading conditions as malaria or pregnancy...
...beginning, urge a crash program costing four or five times what the commission recommended. The commission itself listed $211 million worth of agricultural research projects now under way that could be pushed through immediately. Among them: i) development of powdered whole milk that tastes like fresh 2) a method to make newsprint from southern hardwoods, which would make up income small farmers have lost in cotton; 3) a process to extract fertilizer from chicken feathers; 4) a way to get from rice hulls 750,000 Ibs. a year of a special wax, now imported; 5) development of a host...