Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dixiecrats saw FEPC as an unconstitutional, Communist-inspired plot to force unwanted employees on unwilling employers, an attempt to legislate what only persuasion and education could achieve. With the South in full control, there was not much chance for the FEPC counterargument: that FEPC did not deny an employer's right to hire & fire on merit, that it specified only that religion or race could not be a factor in employment, that local FEPC plans had already proved workable in states like New York...
...Foreign Minister Chou En-lai did the same. The documents they signed proclaimed that: ¶ For 30 years, Russia and China would aid each other "with all means ... in the event of ... attack by Japan or any state allied with her . . ." (i.e., the U.S.). ¶ Russia would transfer toChina control of the strategic Changchun Railway and the seaports of Port Arthur and Dairen in Manchuria. This was only promissory: the transfer would not come about until 1952 or, if it unexpectedly materialized before then, after the signing of a Japanese peace treaty. ¶Russia would extend to China...
Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...
...purified isotopes are stored for packing in a long brick building. The innocent-looking bottles stand on racks behind a high, thick barrier. Watching their work in mirrors, the shipping clerks select a bottle. With remote-control devices that unscrew the bottle's cap, they take out a measured amount of liquid, put it into another bottle and seal it in the proper container, which may contain several hundred pounds of lead...
Quartz crystals are harder to grow than the tenderest orchids. How nature does it is not exactly known, and nature does not produce enough big, perfect crystals to provide electrical manufacturers with the quartz slices they need to control radio frequencies...