Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treason, were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic loyalties "in two separate compartments" by a process he described as "controlled schizophrenia...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...
...comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean are now dry, but if the ice were removed, they would become moist, dropping snow on nearby lands. The snow would pack into ice, and glaciers would start creeping south. Once the process was started, it might be impossible to stop before icecaps covered large parts of Europe...
...quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified by foreign counterpart (local currency) funds at the disposal of the Foreign Agricultural Service, were used to run wheat laboratories in Lima and New Delhi to test local grains, in the process show mills what good U.S. wheat grades to order to make more nutritious, more bakable bread. The work went over so well that Colorado and Kansas wheat growers joined in, recently formed the regional Great Plains Wheat Market Development Association, set up another office in Rotterdam...
Much of Air Products' earnings growth came from its postwar development of oxygen plants for the steel industry. By using oxygen instead of air in furnaces, steelmakers are able to increase their production 20% ; Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams hails the process as "the only major technological breakthrough in the steel industry since the turn of the century." Last week Air Products announced three new plants for steel companies. It will build and operate a $10 million plant for Weirton Steel, j a $3,000,000 plant for Granite City Steel...