Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. had given some indications, hazy though they were, of the kind of international controls it would accept. Perhaps most important of all, however, was the new tone adopted by the Soviets. Said a U.S. official: "Our preliminary reaction is that this is not propaganda but a solid proposal aimed at solving the problem before...
...Solid Support. Now let me turn ... to Algeria. Here the problem is quite different and the solution must undoubtedly be different. The four departments of Algeria are French territory. There are 1,200,000 Frenchmen living in Algeria alongside 8,000,000 Moslems...
Last week, anxious to keep his own position maneuverable, wily President Soekarno intervened four times in an effort to include a Communist or Communist-approved minister in the Cabinet. ("The President," said one diplomat, "is Indonesia's answer to the universal joint.") Each time, he ran into a solid wall of opposition from the Moslem parties. Finally he gave in, approved the Cabinet without change and without Communists. "In the past we've been on one bank of a river characterized by poverty, corruption and political instability," he told the new Cabinet. "Now we have changed our government...
Self-Fueled Missiles. A more exciting possibility is that the newly discovered reaction could be used to propel missiles or even aircraft. Nitric oxide may not be the only catalyst that works. The scientists speculate that some solid catalyst might be made into a tube or a honeycomb. When carried swiftly by a rocket through the upper air, it would swallow great volumes of atomic oxygen and make it combine into O2 molecules...
...increasing inventories 10% to 20% to keep up with sales boosts as high as 183% in some areas. In the South, clothing firms, drugmakers and other small manufacturers report rising sales, say they are also increasing inventories because of expected price rises. With steel, copper and aluminum suppliers booked solid well into midyear, West Coast aircraft, electronics, and other manufacturers are building up go-day inventories of scarce metals to protect themselves. As for retailers, Southern California apparel-and department-store inventories are up 9% to 12% in response to a 7% sales increase...