Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than $1.25 for each of its self-invited guests. Conservationists argue that the figure is ridiculously low, and some have angrily contended that if sufficient funds are not appropriated, the parks should be closed. The service itself is hopefully trying to boom its fortunes with a campaign called "Mission 66." Its objective: an "adequately developed and staffed" National Park system by 1966, golden anniversary year of the founding of the Park Service...
Burdened with debts and hobbled by a shortage of capital, Brazil urgently needs help from the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Engineer Lucas Lopes, who is President Juscelino Kubitschek's No. 1 economic-development braintruster, arrived in Washington from Rio to ask for massive loans from the U.S. Government's Export-Import Bank...
...United Presbyterian American Mission in Egypt announced that its eleven schools would comply with another stricture of the Nasser new deal: all schools must teach Mohammedanism to Moslem students, Judaism to Jewish students, and Christianity to Christians. Since most of Egypt's 284 foreign schools are run by Christian missions, and some 35,000 of their students are Moslems, this poses something of a pedagogical as well as a spiritual problem to the Christian schools. About two-thirds of them have reluctantly agreed to comply, though the Roman Catholics have not yet committed themselves, pending high-level discussions...
World War II produced no more unlovely objects than the lumbering, boxlike boats known as landing craft, tank (LCT). In grunting, ponderous procession, they nosed in on landing beaches, dropped gaping jaws to disgorge tanks, trucks and men on shell-torn beaches. Their mission was dangerous but not dashing, and their ill-assorted officers were drawn together in a curiously defiant camaraderie of the mocked...
...Russians "have overtaken us in quantity" and "are closing the quality gap" upon which the U.S. depends for its lead in the airpower race). Last week Twining said that while the Russians probably have more jet aircraft than the U.S., "it's not numbers now [but] the mission of what they are going to do. That is the distinction...