Word: wises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McKay's definition: "Conservation means wise use . . . Natural resources are not worth a thing unless you put work into them...
...California Texas Corp.) has struck oil. They have also invested $22 million in twelve uranium companies, of which only three are producing ore. A speculative boom sent stock prices so high this year that government officials felt compelled to issue warnings against the excesses. Last week the warnings proved wise...
...Communist conquerors of Geneva continued their slow, triumphal progress homeward, waving at friends, accepting bouquets and basking in the plaudits of admirers-and those who suddenly found it wise to be admirers. After listening to Warsaw's official cheers, Red China's Chou En-lai and the Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong moved on to Moscow. There, Foreign Minister Molotov laid on a huge reception, attended by foreign diplomats, top Russian brass and correspondents. Afterward, they were honored with a lavish dinner presided over by Premier Malenkov himself, flanked by the man who jostles...
...Everyman collection, the first new edition in two decades, are the latest attempt to distill "a potent bottle" out of the "great lake of correspondence." They show a mind that always went straight to the point without swerving a hair's breadth and never doubted that it was wise enough to teach law to lawyers, science to scientists, and religion to Popes. Most of the letters have a single idea at the back of them-to impress on the recipients the notion that they are living in an age dominated by a "new spirit"-Napoleon himself. Anything, no matter...
Shale & Possums. Trouble came soon and often. As the 249 competing cars (including 30 different makes) streamed out of Sydney toward Brisbane early this month, small boys stoned them from the roadside. Drivers got lost when wise guys switched highway markers around. A New Zealand entrant burned his hands beating out an engine fire, and 20 cars bogged down in mud. By the time the pack passed the first check point, drivers and officials were already wrangling over penalties...