Word: national
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCormack went on to thank God that Americans are citizens of a great agricultural nation...
Immigration to crack production bottlenecks and bring new blood to the isolated country was another big factor. A third was a huge public works program that has spent $1.2 billion to standardize the nation's chaotic five-gauge railroad system, build new airports, roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and heavy utilities needed as a foundation for industry. The government's giant $1 billion hydroelectric project in the Snowy Mountains south of Canberra is already producing power, will ultimately generate 3,000,000 kw. and provide 1,800,000 acre feet of irrigation water for the states of Victoria...
America the Vincible couches its philippics in an aphoristic style of baroque density, alliteratively peppered with Peter Piperisms, e.g., "Many myths thus made the marvelous mirage." But its basic message is simple and fervent: the U.S. must think its way through to the right answers, for "our nation lives under no benign dispensation from such tragedy as has tormented and broken empires of past ages...
...President Eisenhower prepares to set out on his gala 13-nation trip, many months after The Ugly American appeared, the United States still has an ambassador in Paris who speaks German, no French, and an ambassador in Bonn who speaks French, no German. In addition, American embassies throughout the world are dotted with the rankest collection of amateurs that any diplomatic corps can boast...
...first two books in the nine volume study dealt with changes in the internal structure of New York; others will deal with the city's relation to changes occurring in the nation and the world. Next fall, Vernon's summary of the survey's findings, Metropolls 1985, will appear. "Our function is simply to inform," Vernon said. "We have found certain advantages in keeping normative notions out of our work...