Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vicious & Unacceptable. For nine months Russian and U.S. delegates to the Atomic Energy Commission and the U.N. Security Council have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments. The U.S. press and public got the idea that the two countries were not far apart on the basic question of whether the atom should be controlled. Behind this U.S. error lay the assumption that Russia, lacking The Bomb now and the industrial capacity to compete with the U.S. in future manufacture of it, would find control preferable to inferiority. But the men who make Kremlin policy, tougher-minded than Americans...
...British seaman dropped dead under the stinging lash of a cat o' nine tails, Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty said, "No laws are more just than those governing the conduct...
Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that within the next three years, nine new weather stations for long-range forecasting will be built above the Arctic Circle. Canadians will be in charge of operating them, but the U.S. will pay an unspecified portion of the initial cost (an estimated $150,000 per station) and maintenance. At first the U.S. will also provide most of the trained personnel. Though Howe did not say so, Canadians guessed that this was the first action to implement the new U.S.-Canada defense agreement (TIME...
...decisive Big Nine basketball game of 1947 was played last week. Its surroundings made it look more like two crossroads high schools battling for a county championship...