Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOMETHING of tremendous significance has emerged lately which can best be described as a confidence that World War III is not imminent nor likely to occur in the next few years...
...among the Arabs may seem to offer the Israelis a chance to politick for possible ententes with disaffected Arab states. It is doubtful, however, that any Arab state would risk popular outrage by seeking closer relations with the Israelis. And a "Balkanization" of the Arab states, if it did occur, would hardly promote stability in the area. In the absence of real peace, the Israelis can only prepare for the worst and hope that they can ride out a storm. For if the storm breaks, it will be a violent...
...those they studied in the stars; the required heat seemed unattainable. In 1938 Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, and their discovery led directly to the Abomb. And fission, with its intense release of energy, also suggested that conditions could be created under which thermonuclear reactions might occur. The late Enrico Fermi in 1942 suggested to Teller that fission could be used to start thermonuclear reaction in deuterium (heavy hydrogen). "After a few weeks of hard thought," Teller recalls, "I decided that deuterium could not be ignited by atomic bombs...
Under a guarantee of annual work the employer would purchase labor wholesale rather than retail. Industry would purchase for a year in advance what would amount to an inventory of labor. Management, confronted with the necessity of utilizing that inventory, and with the fluctuations which occur in most businesses, would need many changes in the rules. The present labor contracts are the development of fifty years of bargaining based upon the assumption that men are to be employed by the hour and disemployed instantly when a particular job runs out. The habits of mind of management as well...
Gasmen scoff at the court position that FPC control will mean saving to consumers. They point out that more than 90% of the costs occur after the gas leaves the field. Phillips Petroleum Co., for example, now sells gas from the Texas Panhandle for 9.5? per 1,000 cu. ft. to Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. which delivers it to Milwaukee for 35?. The Milwaukee Gas Light Co. then charges the housewife a whopping $2.13 the first...