Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before it finally approved the bill establishing a National Science Foundation, the House had grafted on a few amendments calculated to keep the new agency as spy-proof as the Union League Club. It seemed a worthy ambition and one that only the Daily Worker could possibly object to. But last week the House found its version of the bill under heated attack by none other than...
...Bamangwato don't object to a white consort and the prospect of half-breed succession," boomed the London Times sternly, "it would not seem to be for the imperial government, pledged before nations to respect equal rights of all races, to overrule them in their own domestic concerns. There, if principle were to prevail over expediency, should be an end of the argument...
...ground. Padded hips were out; gone, too, were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...Object to Switching...