Word: belgium
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...century later, Snyder, now 64-year-old senior entomologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is still fascinated with the life & times of the termite. When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five years earlier in Belgium. The Belgians had catalogued 400 species. When Snyder published his definitive work on U.S. termites in 1935 (Our Enemy the Termite; Comstock Publishing Co., Inc.), the number of classified species had jumped to 1,915. Last week in Washington, the Smithsonian Institution was selling Snyder's latest work...
More serious has been the opposition of the colonial powers to continuance of the 16-member committee which analyzes the social and economic data from dependent areas. The life of the group was recently extended three years by a vote of 41 to 4, with Britain, France, Belgium, and South Africa in the minority. Britain complained that information was being used by Russia for propaganda purposes, and that the committee had been given an "illegal" assignment to study political questions. The British also felt that reports should be made on all backward areas, self-governing as well as dependent...
There will be no change, according to Monro, in the previously announced closing date for applications for awards in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and New Zealand, and for the most of the awards in the United Kingdom. This competition was closed on November 30. The remaining United Kingdom positions are for specialists in particular fields...
...offers 20 summers tours this years, visiting England, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Scotland, Austria, the Middle East, and Latin American...
election the Liberals joined the Cath (Christian Socialists) in a cabinet. The Catholics left the Finance Ministry - and the chance to cut taxes as - to the Liberals' sturdy Henri Last week Belgium's Parliament was Finance Minister Liebaert's cut in direct taxes (on property, shares), which would save Bel prosperous, free-enterprising tax $5,000,000 this year. Further reductions, hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance...