Word: scatteringly
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Prospects of worldwide television transmission are looking up. At last week's "scatter propagation" conference at George Washington University, electronics engineers were enthusiastic about the recently declassified techniques for transmitting "line-of-sight" waves much farther than the horizon...
...world to the primitive conditions of the time of Cain and Abel. He even has, within the range of his grasp, means to completely exterminate the human race. Today, scientists can make a good educated guess as to the number of [bombs] needed for total world catastrophe-to scatter to the four winds, in a matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are we not playing with things that belong to God?" The concerted, atheistic threat against all we hold dear has increased and grown bolder...
Villagers who might have watched the twentieth century pass by are now eagerly changing their feudal conditions. Farmers learn to plant rice in rows, rather than scatter it with no plan. Some villages begin cooperative stores and libraries...
...Foreign Operations Administration has launched a new program to promote U.S. investment abroad. It has already compiled and distributed to businessmen a list of industrial projects needed in various countries. To augment the list, FOA is training a force of 16 business-school graduates, who will scatter to the globe's corners looking for investment opportunities...
...compact, hard-hitting mobility; well-balanced for defense but, in the German tradition, built for offense. Each armored division will have twice as many tanks as the German Panzer division of World War II, and immensely more firepower. Set up to operate efficiently as a single force, yet scatter quickly into small units and thus present a poor target for atomic attack. Arms: The U.S. has already stockpiled, mostly in the U.S., the bulk of Germany's first needs, $500 million worth of guns, ammunition, tanks and planes. By 1956, Germans hope to be making their own light arms...