Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Party election manifesto, said Churchill, contains "an effective design, or plot-for that is a truer term-to obtain power .over their fellow countrymen such as no British government has ever sought before...
Canada and the U.S. reached agreement last week on the all-important issue of how the Canadian forces are to obtain U.S. arms under the Military Assistance Pact. Canada got special treatment for a special reason: of all MAP countries she is the only one ready to pay cash. But the arms deal was no simple buy & sell transaction. Until U.S. concessions opened the way for a settlement, it had seemed that one of the most bitter disputes in years might develop between the two neighbors...
...thinks that the iodide particles, drifting eastward, caused a long streak of rain through southern Colorado and Kansas. "It is very important," he concluded, "that regular tests on certain selected days of each week be carried out throughout the year using amounts of seeding agents just sufficient to obtain conclusive statistical data as to their effectiveness in producing rain...
...Fair Return." The steelworkers' new pensions and insurance alone, said Fairless, would cost U.S. Steel $3.88 a ton "and more than offset the $3.82 per ton which we hope to obtain from our price increase." Other costs were also up. Big Steel's annual fuel and freight bill, for instance, had risen by $33 million...
...inability of students to get out of China since the Communist triumphs there, the enrollment of Chinese students this year is about 40 below normal. Now that American consular officials are leaving China, this figure will drop off move, since it will be impossible for students to obtain visas...