Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S smug and complacent dismissal of William Vogt's ideas on world population and world food supply, there were numerous references to "the real soil scientists" who assured TIME that everything will be O.K.-the technologists will find a way to feed everybody . . . That crops can be grown on intensively cultured and fertilized areas of poor soil is not news . . . Where is the unlimited supply of fertilizer coming from-particularly the phosphates...
...Oppenheimer cover story turned out to be one of the most complicated stories TIME has yet had to do, and TIME extends its thanks to everyone who contributed his time and knowledge to it. In its way, it serves to illustrate the fact that education can be one of the world's most exciting subjects...
...Visits to Moscow. The President's way of behaving himself was to end, once & for all, any speculation that he might be thinking of another "Vinson mission" to Moscow. There would be no negotiations with Russia, he said, while Russia blockaded Berlin. He would be happy to talk to Stalin, he added, but only if Stalin came to Washington (highly unlikely...
Lippmann's group, loaded with prominent names, had an easy time getting its investigation under way. William Polk was not so lucky...
William Polk has had to face two other hurdles: money and Harvard University's rules. The first problem arose because, inexperienced in money raising, he did not apply to the Bureau of Internal Revenue for tax exempt status for gifts until his drive for funds was well under way; by the time he did apply, red tape would have kept him from getting approval until well after the time it would be useful. Failure to get the tax exempt status for gifts for a non-profit purpose cost him many contributions. Moreover, despite donations from the Harvard Liberal Union...