Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked day & night to repair the war-torn Yellow River dyke. If UNRRA succeeds in restoring the dyke before June, some 7,500,000 bushels of grain will be saved from the river's ravaging floods...
...dweilings on the lots; the University's action in petitioning for a change Indicates its readiness to proceed on its own permanent housing program without walting for the city to take advantage of the offer to lease it the land at $1 a year for a Cambridge temporary housing project...
Disgruntled Russians curled up with a very good book-the U.S. best-seller Atomic Energy for Military Purposes by the "American Smyth" (Dr. Henry DeWolf Smyth, consultant for the Manhattan project). Thirty thousand copies were available to Russians who wanted to learn atomic "secrets" the easy...
...Rome's parallel gesture, the Geneva meeting was stark and austere. Only the colorful garb of an Anglican bishop here & there relieved the somber black-robed meeting of hundreds of Protestant churchmen. From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief of war-ravaged countries. General...
...members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could...