Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed up Brazilian industrial output for the war. He saw magnificent resources-largest high-grade iron deposits in the world, rich bauxite fields, big nickel deposits, unlimited water power. Last week Cooke was ready to return to the U.S. With Joao Alberto he issued a prospectus of the report he will submit to the U.S. Government...
Aware of the limitations of shipping space, the prospectus is cautious as to what the U.S. can give Brazil now in the way of machine tools which Brazil needs if she is to increase her industrial output immediately. But in terms of the future the prospectus goes the limit-provided that Brazil can get from the U.S. one priceless intangible: technical skill and know-how; and one tangible: capital equipment. How she is to get these two things, and whether her development will involve American private enterprise or will be a huge Government project, Engineer Cooke leaves extremely vague...
Forest Lawn also boasts a huge, earthquake-proof mausoleum inspired by Campo Santo in Genoa. Its Wee Kirk o' the Heather exactly reproduces the church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Its Little Church of the Flowers reproduces Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his Elegy. At Forest Lawn, says the prospectus, "undertaking is combined with all forms of interment in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement for everything...
...with Japan. There's no point of deceiving ourselves with a dream of the future world without Russia; there's no point of thinking that we can sit over here and draw up the map of Central Europe without Russia; there's no point of planning the military prospectus of the war without Russia. We've got to work with them, understand their problems, and fit them into our scheme of the future as best we can. This is no mariage de convenance. Right now they're bearing the brunt of the war, and when the peace comes around they...
Planning expansion on a nationwide scale, the Harvard Council on Post-war Problems has issued and distributed to colleges throughout the country a pamphlet outlining the nature of its work and sketching the prospectus of a national magaine to publish college work on the subject...