Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General MacArthur's brand new Japan has become the white hope of democracy in the Far East, and there have been some extraordinary efforts to keep it pure. One such is an ultimatum presented by a group of Republican and Southern Democratic congressmen to the State Department demanding that Japan recognize Chiang-kai-Shek as China's true leader...
Hiding the Keep Japan Pure crusade behind military anonymity is a new twist in an older crusade, one that started with Attorney-General Palmer back in the twenties. The trick in this case is to intimidate the Pentagon by thundering "Red!" whether there is sufficient evidence or not--a trick typical of the lengths to which pressure groups will go to stfle opinions differing with their own. If the Army will not replace this system with a more intelligent screening process, at least it should tell the accused what he is being accused...
...Paraded as pure engineering and applied geometry, this new skyscraper proves really to be a triumph of irrelevant romanticism. If anything deserves to be called picture-book architecture, this is it, for all the fundamental qualities of architecture seem to have been sacrificed to the external picture, or rather, to the more ephemeral passing image reflected on its surface. Should one look behind this magician's mirror, one should not be surprised to find, if not a complete void, something less than good working quarters for a great world organization...
...isolated from animal matter that is now usually thrown away (blood, bone, hair and feathers), they might be used to stretch the world's supply of protein foods by as much as 50%. There are 23 amino acids, and Dr. McCollum has succeeded in getting only one in pure crystalline form. It does not bother him that there are 22 to go. "I expect to be still around here, working, 30 years from now," he says...
...termed the House action "an example of a wide misunderstanding as to the vital importance of advances in pure science." He said he hoped the Senate would "rectify this error." The House granted the Foundation only $300,000, a cut of 98 percent from the requested...