Word: weste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hsinhuaese. Currently embarked on an ambitious expansion program, Hsinhua is concentrating its greatest effort among the nations wravering between East and West. Purveying its free service, not only to the press but to government departments, foreign embassies, important business firms and even individuals, Hsinhua is making a hard pitch in the struggle for the allegiance of undecided nations...
...quiet prairie town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 33 miles west of Chicago, is known mainly as the site of the state reform school. But last week its new high school science setup was the talk of visiting college teachers, who had never seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived...
Diminishing Returns. What the Soviet Union faces is a period of diminishing returns that other industrial nations have usually experienced after a major growth spurt. Many of the Soviets' methods and machines were pirated straight from the West, and they sparked the spurt; now they are aging, and the rate of growth is bound to go down. Furthermore, in the days of breakneck drive for growth in the '20s and '30s, writes Nove, "Iron ore or coal mines were 'creamed,' the best and most easily accessible mineral being taken as quickly as possible. The virgin...
Credit on the Barrel. Wangling money, equipment and labor on credit, Richardson began wildcatting, brought in West Texas' famed Keystone field. "It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth. "I did it by jumping up in the air six feet and holding myself up by my own bootstraps...
...DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (319 pp.)-Mom's L West-Morrow...