Word: portion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another of Lilienthal's problems was deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while...
...Cambridge portion of the debate, in which Norman M. Hinerfeld '51, Melvin L. Zurier '50, and Richard D. Rohr '50, will take the negative, will be held in the Winthrop Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network. William C. Becker '51, Richard W. Hulbert '51, and Richard S. Stewart '50 will uphold the affirmative at New Haven...
...year of confusion and crisis, Sir Stafford Cripps emerges as the man who, for better or worse, did more than any other person to dislocate the economy of a major portion of the earth...
...Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective Service] act ... providing a penalty for knowingly counseling . . . evasion of registration or service . . . The act is a law which I feel morally bound to break...
...hand the country faces a large and increasing flow of college graduates; on the other, the professions, cherished goal of a large portion of college graduates, offer a declining number of employment opportunities...