Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palms & Paratroopers. Impressive as the present wave of Moslem enthusiasm for integration is, there are staggering difficulties involved. On a one-man, one-vote basis, Algeria's Moslems would send more than 100 Deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, and they would effectively control political power in Algeria itself. If salaries, social security and family allotments were equalized with those of Metropolitan France, it would cost millions of dollars. Who would pay, and with what...
...show that when private enterprise and the United States come into Latin America, we do so not for the purpose of simply keeping in power the elite." He deprecated U.S. diplomats who concentrated on "white-tie dinners," adding that "the universities and the labor movement [are] the wave of the future." Do we leave the field to the Communists? If we do, said Nixon, "we are going to lose the battle...
...physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1904, was commissioned to write on "Light." He missed his deadline, but the encyclopedia was being published volume by volume in alphabetical order, and his piece was rescheduled under "Optics"-and again as "Undulating Theory of Light." It finally got in under "Wave Theory of Light...
...evidences of business improvement that go beyond a seasonal pickup. Most of all, the public must get the feeling that the worst is over or that, at least, it will not be too bad. "We are not being pessimistic, but realistic. The greatest possible danger is a secondary shock wave later this year or in 1959 when the good news fails to come...
...With a wave of a symbolic radioactive wand. Pat Nixon last week sponsored the keel-laying of the world's first atomic merchantman-and gave the U.S. another leg up in the race to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes...