Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Earlier tests, conclusive or not, have called forth new theories of rain-formation. The old explanation, which the Weather Bureau still favors, worked in terms of complex systems of wind. Rainmakers claim that precipitation depends more on nature's providing enough particles on which, raindrops can form-or on man's providing artificial particles, like silver iodide nuclei. To explain how this "seeding" can result in a violent storm, they provide a detailed "chain-reaction" theory...
...working force today, only 35 million are currently earning credits (i.e., putting more aside) under Social Security. But millions more are covered by other public programs. Some 3,000,000 veterans and their widows and dependents are now covered under tax-supported pension plans. The Federal Government has a complex system for its 2,300,000 employees; special plans also cover members of Congress,* the foreign service, the armed forces, and a sprinkling of minor bureaus from the Tennessee Valley Authority to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. State and local governments also provide...
...order to get to a friend, who is presumably still a Nazi, in St. Louis. Douglas' girl trots through the picture asking insane questions about the U. S., and representing unconsciously, symbolically, the problem of the German national character. She, and implicitly, the German, is possessed of a father complex, which permits easy control by a usurper. An afternoon's reading of the Constitution of the United States, however, enables her to hurdle her own necrosis and discover a new, improved meaning to life...
...with the help of only two assistants, a few stenographers, and what amounts to a commuter's ticket on all the world's airlines. Harrold has developed a green kit containing fat instruction books, slide films, records, etc. Even a man with a stammer and an inferiority complex can become a dynamic lecturer. Sample instruction for a salesmen's meeting...
Scientists, always striving with the rest of mankind to work toward greater & greater simplicity, often fare no better than politicians, industrialists, economists and plain citizens: the longer they work, the more complex things get. Delving into the secrets of the atomic nucleus, which once seemed fairly simple, the physicists are finding a new, mysterious and baffling world. Apparently the nucleus contains all sorts of sub-atomic particles...