Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the clogging setbacks of the coal and steel strikes, and the mountainous burden of taxes, the U.S. was still an amazingly prosperous nation. The almost-forgotten recession of last spring had left only barely noticeable scars: personal savings were dropping a little and the old problem of unemployment, though lessening, seemed back for good. But even in comparison with the war years, the U.S. was doing fine...
Three causes which will receive money from the campaign may be observed in action during the year. Two of the three aid Harvard students almost exclusively, while the third, Phillips Brooks House, acts in the interest of Boston's underprivileged as well as undergraduates...
...military security against the release of scientific information. Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they found existing security gags in compatible with their own conceptions of free scientific development...
...ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while in office were international atomic controls (Russia and the U.S. promptly put forth apparently incompatible plans), and the role of private industry in the atomic program (there are strong and stubborn lobbies still working to get a large part...
...formerly the property of the late President Lowell. On the back doors, almost obliterated by weather, are sets of three crossed arrows, the "Lowell coat of arms...