Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This spring, Honneus' personal mission got official status. Aware of his wide experience with business here and abroad, the Department of Commerce asked him to join a four-man* trade mission to West Germany. The mission's mission: to explain the vast U.S. market, second in size only to the world market...
Scratch is the word for it. India's vast country has 300 million illiterates, 80% of its population; in its 500,000 villages there are scarcely 250,000 schools. India has almost as many unemployed as the U.S. has jobholders (68 million)-and the number of job seekers rises by 2,000,000 every year. Yet in its first Five-Year Plan India managed to boost food output by 18%, to make itself (given good weather) largely self-sufficient for food. Across the Himalayas, where a rival drama of planned advance is being enacted, the totalitarian techniques of Chinese...
...serve the biggest specialized press in the U.S. gathered in Dallas last week, and most of them turned out in an odd journalistic garb: black suits, black hats, clerical collars. Some 350 of them came from 48 states for the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, a vast, closely knit (yet loosely governed) publishing empire with a total magazine and newspaper circulation of almost 24 million. Today, as Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno told the delegates, the Catholic press is "reaching more people and exerting a greater influence over American thought than at any time in the past...
...replant part of its vast, 90,000-acre rubber plantation in Liberia, West Africa with higher-yield (300% more rubber) trees in a program which will eventually boost the plantation's production some 25% to about 44,000 tons annually...
Martin traces his own distrust for an adviser with too much advice to the growth of guidance counseling in secondary schools. "There is no reason that an 18-year old should not be able to make his own decisions, but his secondary school background may have had such a vast counseling machinery for easing his way that he has failed to assume his proper responsibilities." Because Martin feels that the contrived intimacy of the guidance counselor is largely an illusion, he feels the advising system, at least in theory, should be kept to the primary, limited purpose of helping...