Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warnings. The Soviet leaders had known for months that they were in trouble in the satellites. Stalin's ruthless economic exploitation strained the satellite regimes beyond endurance, and generated layers of explosive discontent beneath the placid surfaces, particularly in Poland and Hungary. The strain could not be kept up, either in Russia or the satellites. Out of that realization came Russia's new course, which began with Malenkov, and then (after a retreat) was continued by Khrushchev. Hoping to win popular allegiance, Khrushchev, as the head of a gang that rose to authority under Stalin, delivered his famous...
...Dresser export any technical information in exchange for the drills; eventually, O'Connor worked out a straight cash deal with the U.S.S.R. O'Connor feels that getting the Russian equipment was worth the trouble, since U.S. engineers were unsuccessful in developing a turbodrill that could withstand the strain and pressure of deep drilling. Says O'Connor: "That's where the Russians beat us. They decided that if they were going to drill with mud, they must lubricate with mud. They're just a bunch of farmers, and they took the logical...
...speed of aircraft increases, the strain on the pilot's judgment increases even faster. A good part of the trouble, thinks Commander George W. Hoover of the Office of Naval Research, is that the aircraft's swarm of instruments make their reports in figures, usually the positions of needles on round dials. The pilot's brain, however, is designed to work with pictures taken from a visual world. Before the instrument readings mean anything to it, the brain must transpose and combine them into something like a visual picture. It takes time for the brain to function...
...slow-frozen, cold-storage product that looked like fish and often tasted like mush. In vesting $7 in buckets of brine, blocks of ice and an electric fan, Birdseye started to quick-freeze fish. Birdseye's process turned out well; his finances, however, were not equal to the strain of setting up a large manufacturing and distributing organization, and he went broke. Unfazed. he hocked his life insurance and gambled again. This time he won; in 1929 Birdseye. who now had powerful backers, sold his General Seafoods Corp. and 168 quick-freeze patents to the Postum Co. (later renamed...
...fact, however, that this noble blood strain has not been able to maintain its pure position. The entrance of Commander Whitehead into commerce is only the most obvious example of internal difficulty. The Muse no longer smiles constantly on that house. D.H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, proud members of the Line, have, brought credit, but showed signs of a weakening of the force which ran through Longfellow...