Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tremendous technical advances have been made since World War II, but the nation's soldiers, sailors and airmen are still dissatisfied with much of their combat equipment. To spur on U.S. industrialists, scientists and ordinary basement inventors, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week issued its periodic list of new gadgets and gimmicks needed by the armed forces. Sample items...
...with the simple formula of the Golden Rule. Vinoba Bhave, the man Gandhi chose to be his first example of civil disobedience against the British, is walking through villages asking the landed to volunteer one-fifth of their acreage for redistribution. "Bheodan," or landgift, is an idea that may spur state governments to needed reforms. For to date Vinoba has collected over three million acres in his saintly, Gandhian way, and he hopes to have 50 million by the end of 1956. Tremendous problems of redistribution, gifts of fallow land, and the lack of accompanying agricultural improvements plague the Bheodan...
...thankful for last week. The Agriculture Department announced a guarantee of 62? a Ib. for the 1955 wool clip, 17% above the current support level and a generous 106% of parity. The bigger subsidy, authorized by congressional revision of the Wool Act last summer, was designed to spur wool output to 300 million Ibs. annually from a near-record low of 230 million Ibs. this year...
...organizations, e.g., NATO, atomic-weapons information needed for 1) defense plants, 2) training personnel in using and defending themselves against atomic weapons, and 3) evaluating the enemy's atomic capabilities. However, no design secrets which would tell other countries how to build A-bombs would be revealed. To spur foreign development of industrial atomic operations, the bill would let the U.S. transmit information on 1) refining and processing source materials, 2) reactor designs, and 3) health and safety measures...
Rebuffs only seemed to spur Eric Johnston to new efforts of persuasion. Where-ever he went, he deflected tirades by holding up his hand and saying he did not want a yes or no answer right now, just a promise to look at his proposal...