Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plastics were far past the gadget stage. They were passing the stage of being chiefly substitute materials. Now, pushed by wartime technology, plastics are major materials in their own right. There are many new types, and plastics are preferred for many jobs. The full catalogue would be long and complex. Suggestive items...
...billion, in 1943 will do a business of some 168 billion points. The big figure brings little cheer to the grocery trade. Grocers will handle a smaller volume of goods than last year. And doing business on point currency is 1) expensive, 2) complicated. It adds to a highly complex money economy the rules of trading in wampum or sea shells...
...parallel between American isolationism, Russia's withdrawal into nationalism and Britain's desire to be left alone. Basically. Britain had always relied on playing one European nation against another, a policy now "irrevocably destroyed by the inexorable march of military and economic developments toward larger and more complex forms of organization...
...postwar starting line. Said Walter Leslie Runciman, head of B.O.A.C.: "After the war you will have victors and neutrals feeling they must have some kind of air transport and if you are not careful you are going to have airline competition between governments with a disarmament-political complex. If that happens the Americans will have all the advantages because they have the planes and the money...
...they use exercises for difficulties which they recognize as muscular (cross eyes, walleyes, etc.). Exercise equipment may be simply a pin which a patient watches while it is brought up to his nose, or a complex instrument like the synoptophore, third cousin to a stereoscope, which not only exercises eyes but helps diagnosis as well. An eye-exerciser sponsored by American Optical Co.'s Dr. J. F. Neumueller (see cut) combines mirrors, lenses, lights and stereoscopic images to give eye muscles a strenuous workout...