Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Better Missiles. The biggest ram jet tested so far is 20 inches in diameter, but bigger ones are on the way. Exact details are a military secret, but Wright engineers are already talking about a monster (probably no bigger than an automobile) that will develop 75,000 h.p.-about one-third as much as the Queen Mary...
...race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop the technical skills and peacetime atomic-energy possibilities of all nations, including Russia. In return, other nations, including Russia, would have to promise to submit to real international control of atomic energy, and to spend two-thirds of their present arms budgets for "constructive ends...
Last December he asked the RFC (which does not lend money when private capital is available) for a loan of $70 million. If he gets it, he can pay off the insurance companies, and use $20 million to tide himself over while he does his utmost to develop new fields at New Ulm and Collins Lake. If the RFC refuses him? Glenn McCarthy might have to surrender some of his empire...
Within the profession itself, the AMA feels that a spirit of competition might develop between doctors that would hurt their practices. Worst of all, the group believes that the federal scholarships would extend one step further the encroachment of the government into the affairs of medical schools and lead eventually to their nationalization...
...federal government "shall prescribe any requirements with respect to the curriculum or administration of any school." In addition the House Committee report emphasizes that the federal aid should be to supplement and not to replace other normal resources. "Each institution," the report states, "should remain free to develop its own educational pattern in accordance with its own concept of its historical destiny, its own philosophy of education and the educational needs of the region within which it operates...