Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
...from Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese. The job has Red China's top priority. "The workers are moving mountains and filling rivers at an altitude of 9,000 ft.," Peking recently crowed. "They are battling ice floes and swift currents in sub-zero weather." The Lanchow-Sinkiang will give Russia its fastest connection to the Pacific. (The Moscow-Peking journey now takes nine days via the aging Trans-Siberian Railroad and Red China's existing networks.) The new line will also give Red China its best route to the Soviet Union...
...Rothschild was summoned before the Senate Investigations Sub-committee to face what Chairman Joseph McCarthy (Rep.-Wis.) said were 'some of the most serious charges ever made against a Government official...
Turning to Roy Cohn, the sub-committee counsel sitting by his side, Mr. McCarthy issued these instructions...
Last week Radio Corp. of America demonstrated a sub-thimble-size radioactive battery that is somewhat more efficient. A film of Strontium 90 is spread on a wafer of silicon. When its beta particles shoot into the silicon, each of them releases 200,000 fresh electrons, which are collected as an electric current by a spot of silicon-antimony alloy...