Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West still have great faith in "sitting down with the Russians and talking things out." They forget that the West tried this for two postwar years, always with the result that Russia broke her promises almost before they were made and gained invaluable strategic positions in the process. Harry Truman last week, for no obvious reason, announced that he was always ready to meet Joe Stalin (in Washington). Newsmen in the U.S. and in Europe speculated that the Kremlin might propose a meeting in, say, Scandinavia. Suppose the Russians did decide to play thus on the world's desperate...
Many a Canadian who has watched U.S. investment grow to control a third of Canadian industry worries lest ERP speed up this process. Neither Washington nor Ottawa foresees ERP investment in industry; indeed, both contend that ERP will not reduce Canadian economic independence a whit...
...Great Wall. Looking beyond the five Marshall Plan years, many Canadians see economic integration with the U.S. as a snowballing process. Said one last week: "The snowball is rolling down the hill and no one's going to stop it now." Nevertheless, these Canadians draw a sharp line between "integration" and "union...
...telecast of a boxing bout in Brooklyn on the theater's screen. It was the first time that full-screen television had been shown in a major theater as the event was taking place.The image was transferred from tube to film by a special photographic and developing process, then "fed continuously to a projector and flashed to the screen. The whole converting operation (tube-to-film-to-screen) took only 66 seconds. Images were bright and well-defined, and the sneak preview was hailed by all who saw it. The mere mention of Brooklyn brought such a storm...
...will wait for a week after their last exam in June for its return, there could be an improvement next year in the case of the February exams. The number of readers should be increased so that more attention can be paid to each paper and so that the process can be speeded up. The paper could thus be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is handed in. No increase in cost would he involved, since most departments pay their readers per paper. The instructive value of the mid-year exam would...