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Much of this progress is due to increased technological skill. By the end of the '30s, the Russians were learning new industrial techniques fast, were just about to reap a modest harvest by the time they switched over to total war production. After the German attack in 1941, thousands of Russian technicians went to the U.S., worked in U.S. factories, took home invaluable industry know-how. The 1940-49 figures show in part how the new knowledge paid...
...trade was brisk, her U.S. dollar reserves mounting to a record high. The Canadian dollar was obviously worth more than its quoted price of 90? U.S., and revaluation seemed certain. If it should be hiked to its old par value of 100 U.S. cents, an investor would stand to reap a quick 10% profit...
...Irving Langmuir, high priest of scientific rainmaking, sounded a solemn warning last week: those who sow too many rainstorms may reap nothing but droughts. Speaking at the School of Mines in drought-threatened New Mexico, Langmuir denounced the commercial rainmakers, many of them woefully ignorant of the art, who are seeding the atmosphere with silver iodide throughout the dry Southwest. "Some of them," he said, "are using hundreds of thousands of times too much. No more than one milligram [.000035 oz] of silver iodide should be used for every cubic mile...
...foresaw during that campaign," said Irving Ives, "that the deliberate partisan effort to injure Mr. Dulles' reputation . . . was striking a dangerous blow at the cause of bipartisanship ... I am constrained to observe that those who sow the wind should not be surprised if they sometimes reap the whirlwind...
...undone. Since dust-bowl days, thousands of acres of normally dry grasslands in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico had been plowed and pulverized by "suitcase farmers." Lured by record .postwar wheat prices, they had sent gigantic plows into the poorest lands of the plains to reap quick profits from the opportune cycle of heavy rainfall. Now, in the new dryness, their fields were being abandoned to the drought and wind. If the dry cycle continued through one or two more years, U.S. soil conservationists warned, the pale yellow ghost of the grim dark days could turn both frightening...