Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Communists are entering a long period of stress. They must cope with vast economic and technological problems, with provincial and local dissidents. If the U.S. recognizes the Red regime, it could maintain consular posts to observe the difficulties and possibly encourage opposition. Also, the presence of U.S. diplomats would tend to "inhibit" Russian moves to strengthen the Russian grip on China...
Because he fears the "uncertainties" of the future of medical care, C. N. Hugh Long, dean of the Yale Medical School, came out this week for a widely-revised medical education system as the alternative to "vast health insurance plans...
...promulgating vast compulsory or voluntary health insurance plans" is not the answer, Long feels, for medical is "only as good" as the physicians provided by the schools...
This brings the year's contribution total to approximately $400,000 and still leaves a vast difference between the present total and the sum necessary to match the Rockefeller donation. The donation of $5,000,000 given to the Business School by John D. Rockefeller Jr. last spring was made under the condition that a sum equal to it would be raised by July...
NUTS; THE GREAT FIASCO, cried a rude Daily Mail banner headline. It referred to the Labor government's grandiose, three-year-old project of planting a vast acreage of groundnuts (peanuts) in the bush wastes of Tanganyika, East Africa. The nuts were supposed to yield margarine and add extra calories to Britain's meager diet. Last week, Labor bigwigs were reading the first summary of the project's progress by the Overseas Food Corp., which the government created to run the groundnut scheme. It was a most embarrassing report...