Word: russianizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worth letter a few weeks ago "at the peril of my naval career," he was promptly moved lout of Washington to a job with the fleet. the white House announcement of atomic explosions in Russia, coupled with persistent rumors of 5000 mile-ranged rockets coming out of the Russian experimental stations on the Baltic, stimulated a drive in Congress for a bigger Air Force. With the present limited defense budget, naval officers fretfully equated this against smaller fleet...
Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics on the executice committee of the Russian Research Center, had two observations to make...
Generally optimistic views over the British action and its effects on west and East came from seven of the University's economic experts--men familiar with the problem through work with the Economic Cooperation Administration the University's Russian Research Center, and through general studies in the field of international trade. Of these men, only one was not convinced that devaluation had at least al fair chance of solving Britain's economic woes...
...chairman of the Russian research Center's economic project. Associate Professor Alexander Gerschenkrop agrees that because of the trade barriers, devaluation's overall effect on the Soviet East will be "small for the time being." But he remarked that, although Russia theoretically has been always trying to wreck the Marshall Plan, in practice she has continuously been exporting grain to western Europe, and buying some production goods in return. "Perhaps in economic policy, Russia is not so interested in discouraging western trade as we suppose...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...