Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltic coast at Warnemünde, docks are being built to establish one of the world's largest ports. It will be open to Soviet shipping this year. A 15-year inland waterway scheme will link Berlin and Magdeburg by a system of canals and rivers with Russia's Kaliningrad (formerly East Prussian Königsberg) and Poland's industrial Bydgoszcz...
...Polish fears have largely faded. "We are not sitting on our suitcases any more," said a Polish scientist in Szczecin. "We are here to stay." Peasants, assured by the government that there will be no forced collectivization, are expanding their holdings under a new government scheme that allows farmers to buy state land at low cost. Obviously with Vatican approval, Cardinal Wyszynski has sent Polish bishops into the area, proclaiming, "Poland has come here, plows and sows here, kneels and prays, believes and loves here...
...left a large mark on Canadian affairs. His "vision of the north" moved toward reality as plans were drafted for new roads, railroads, and air routes stretching into the mineral-rich northland. He improved Canada's social welfare system, put into effect a long-planned national hospitalization scheme. He tightened Canada's Commonwealth ties by a two-month good-will tour of Commonwealth capitals...
Brookhaven scientists gave Nick Christofilos a job and appreciation, but he did not stay with them long. He had ideas about the biggest problem in applied physics-how to generate controlled fusion power-and Brookhaven had no such program. In 1956 he took his scheme for a fusion reactor to the University of California, which had become acquainted with his yeasty mind eight years before...
...farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil War's last...