Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this desperate plea for the return to a scarcity economy, the matter rested this week. Karl Marx (who in a lifetime of research never came across a single shmoo) provides an inkling of what might yet happen. "Society . . . finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism . . . There is too much . . . means of subsistence . . . The productive forces at the disposal of society [i.e., the shmoos] no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property...
Higher & Higher. Most rocket-borne research, said Dr. Van Allen, has been done by V-2s captured in Germany. Up to July 1, 31 of them had been fired at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, "with upper atmospheric equipment as the primary payload." Twenty-one flights were successful, and one of the rockets reached an altitude of 184 kilometers (114 miles). Some of the information gathered was sent back by radio "telemetering." Other rockets blew off their noses, so that the instruments and records in them would hit the earth less violently. Parachutes brought some instruments drifting gently...
...from obscurity to oblivion." But when Charles Austin Beard threw back his head, squinted down his long nose, and began to lecture at Columbia University, students jammed in to hear him. And when he perched on the edge of a desk to speak of his own research ("Now I'll tell you what I found out last night"), historians from all over the U.S. came to attention...
...response to an offer of free toothbrushes made by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, acting for Weco Products Co.; the new brushes, offered in a well-bristled combination of scientific research and sales promotion, were Weco's Dr. West...
...First Duty. The U.S. is preparing for a "barbaric war," Ehrenburg cried. Up rose New York's Dr. Bryn J. Hovde, director of the New School for Social Research. He said that the Russian talk was the kind governments use to justify a "premeditated military attack." If the Communists really believed all of Fadeev's charges, snapped Hovde, "then my own people can only judge itself terribly threatened and unite in preparation for the worst." Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor, whose BBC contract was canceled because he was too "pro-Russian," told the Russians: "The first duty of intellectuals...