Word: system
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total cost of the first 95 B-365 ordered, said the Air Force, was more than $6,000,000 apiece, including the addition of jet pods and a new bombing system; the next 75 would be $4,700,000 a copy...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
...Christian missions as facing many critical decisions. Foremost is the question of the schools. "The situation in Southern Rhodesia illustrates it. There the government pays most of the bill of those Protestant and Catholic mission schools which meet government standards, instead of providing universal free education. Under this system, about a third of the children are in school. If the missions turn education.over to the government, it would have to be provided for everyone, and it would cost three times as much. But the missionaries are worried about doing this because they know that most new church members now come...
...Science cannot flourish under the domination of a social system," he told an interviewer before leaving for Paris to attend a conference on U.N. research laboratories. "It must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...
...spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION and could surely, speedily and permanently be cured by the use of LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND." The opposition had nothing to match this; Dan was elected...