Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollars abroad, so that the world can pay for U.S. exports. Last year American tourists spent $850 million overseas. Trippe preaches that if such spending could be multiplied, it would take much of the cost of EGA and other world recovery programs off the taxpayer's back and strengthen the U.S. as a trading nation...
Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding fathers endeavored to write into our Constitution...
Boston's "Battle of the Plans" is just one more phase in the struggle between the friends of James Michael Curley and the opponents of James Michael Curley. In trying to strengthen his hold on the city, the Mayor has made some enemies, some in his own party, many more among the independent vote. The opposition got a glimmer of hope last year when the Massachusetts State Legislature passed a bill enabling Boston to take advantage of the Uniform Charter Act, which allows a city to choose between five types of city charter if the citizens want a revision. Curley...
During the spring Chafee intends to strengthen the team offensively by teaching his men some new leg holds...