Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pauley neatly tied reparations to the issue of integrated administration of Germany. German reparations cannot be shipped to Russia, he said, "because no zone commander can go forward until he knows whether Germany is in reality to be treated as a single economic unit, as was agreed at Potsdam, or whether he must plan to run his zone as an independent economy...
Under the unit system, Fulton County (where Carmichael beat Talmadge by 23,836) got six electoral votes for its 92,500 voters. Echols County got two for its 619 voters. Thus, one Echols vote had the electoral power of 150 Fulton votes in last week's election. Not one of Georgia's 159 counties is so humble as to have less than two electoral votes...
...TRANSPORT. Labor plans to weld railways, trucking canals, docks & harbors (but not shipping) into a unit under a national transport board by next year. Rail and road haulage comapnies have already launched a "fight-to-finish" propaganda barrage against the project...
...Naval Intelligence services, and the NKVD secret police each had its system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...
...Washington University last week, Chancellor Arthur H. Compton assigned some 40 scientists to basic nuclear studies and the many unsolved engineering problems involved in making atomic engines Said Compton: "A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship, and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made...