Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the A.M.A. Journal took a roundhouse swing at the huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...
...Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed him with...
...reach the first objective, Mission students concentrate on the study of the Bible. For the second, they are encouraged to occupy themselves also with the things of the world. In their crowded dormitories are pin-up pictures of movie stars and sports figures; their bookshelves contain volumes by Karl Marx, A. J. Cronin, Saint-Exupery, and Communist Poets Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. From the chapel come the strains of Old Folks at Home and Negro spirituals with new French words. Such music is considered to be "in touch with the mass suffering of our times. It is full...
...small quartz crystal (it may be only a sliver) is suspended near the top. When the bottom of the bomb is heated to 750°F., and the pressure raised to 15,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the ground quartz dissolves. Its molecules diffuse through the solution. When they reach the cooler top of the chamber, they deposit one by one on the "seed," building it into a perfect, transparent crystal which is more uniform, and therefore more useful, than any made by nature...
...Government has yet shown any real intention of paying off [the debt]," said Wilson at a dinner in Philadelphia. Wilson called such negligence a "shameful dereliction to duty and immoral administrative betrayal of a great economic system." He agreed with President Truman that the U.S. national income might well reach $300 billion in five years, but added: "We must take care that we are still dealing in dollars at the end of five years, and not in cigar coupons . . . We have had enough pretty words, enough vague promises to do better next year or next decade, enough planned devaluation...