Word: vastness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Partridge's duty to strive for an absolutely impenetrable air defense screen (even if in so doing he seems to contradict LeMay's doctrine that there is no complete defense against bombers). But LeMay and Partridge are commanders with specific and therefore limited functions in a vast military machine. And it is the duty of Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure that the machine-in all its countless parts-adds up to a single unit meshed for a sole purpose: to keep war away by its total retaliatory power...
...work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid the foundations of a series of vast industrial enterprises. To develop this industry, the Soviet Union now needs the skills and crafts of mil lions of willing, i.e., voluntary, workers, and agricultural producers to feed them...
There, in the heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
Fontana's addition is only a small part of Kaiser Industries' vast expansion under Henry J. and his son, President Edgar F. Kaiser, 47. Edgar is also directing a $33 million expansion for Permanente Cement and a $500 million expansion for Kaiser Aluminum which will push it up to second place in the industry, 28% behind Alcoa...
...when the complex man whom Historian Nevins struggled with in Frémont: Pathmarker of the West has ceased to tease biographers, there will still remain the practical visionary of the Narratives, fully happy for perhaps the only period of his life as he crisscrossed and described a vast, spacious wilderness with the freshness of a man awakening in an Eden. His wife wrote his epitaph: "From the ashes of his campfires have sprung cities...