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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are good reasons for distrusting the facile analogy between 13 homogeneous colonies and seven nations very different in historical background and present social philosophy. Yet it was a fact of some importance to the world that the federal-union movement was growing in the U.S. and that Kefauver's resolution had as large and as varied a cross-section of senatorial support...
...South Africa as it looked to 53 of the Dominion's own painters and sculptors. For historical background there were a score of 18th and 19th Century canvases which showed glimpses of South Africa's colonial past. But most of the work was by contemporaries and reflected present-day Africa-its raw, green hills, adobe towns and sprouting cities...
...three hectic years, AEC has grown into something very like a federal department of research. Its three great national laboratories (Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
...Comet is Britain's most ambitious challenge to the present worldwide supremacy of U.S.-built commercial air transports. British attempts to compete with the U.S. in long-range, propeller-driven airliners have been notable flops. Even her own overseas airlines fly U.S. aircraft. But a successful Comet could change all this by giving Britain the edge in high-speed commercial flying. U.S. manufacturers, who have not even started to build jet airliners, are not likely to have anything to compete with the Comet for several years...
After a nationwide check of 200 industrial plants, the National Association of Purchasing Agents found that new orders were coming in faster than at any time since "the slide" began last October. More than half the plants surveyed were either increasing production or holding steady at present rates. In some areas an upturn was apparent: orders had picked up enough to boost production this week in the Youngstown (Ohio) steel district from 72% of capacity...