Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...with envy. David Sarnoff, board chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, thought the Iron Curtain countries could be ringed with U.S. transmitters at a cost of about $200 million. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, onetime U.S. ambassador to Moscow, guaranteed that Russian satellites would be a "most fertile field," with some 4,000,000 Soviet radios also within reach, and an average of seven listeners to each set. Russia's frenzied efforts to jam Voice of America broadcasts, he added, were proof of the Voice's effectiveness...
...been in the U.S. Senate longer. He stayed there by stoutly supporting ever-higher support for farmers, stoutly opposing public power, and voting labor's way often enough to get labor's support. His wife increased the family income by trading in the cotton market, a field in which the Senator, as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, was quite knowledgeable. When he returns to Oklahoma City these days, he holds his press conferences at the city's best hotel, the Skirvin Tower...
...seniority, plaintively warned that "a baby could grow up before a younger man could do the state any good." With a campaign kitty raised by oil and utility companies, he showered the state with pamphlets ("What Elmer Thomas Has Done for Soy Beans") and ads ("Can We Keep Tinker Field if We Lose Senator Elmer Thomas...
...Apron Strings. The essence of capitalism, says Demant, is "the predominance of market relationships over the greater part of the social field." The free market of capitalism pinned a "For Sale" sign on more & more aspects of human life, he feels; the process reached a "climax of social destructiveness when the three foundations of society, which are not by their nature commodities', [were] treated as if they were-namely, labor, land and money...
...week nearly a hundred of the Protestant missionaries had been evacuated to Japan. In Manhattan, an emergency meeting of the Korea Committee of the Foreign Missions Conferences agreed that most of the Protestant missionaries should wait out the fighting in Japan, that a few volunteers should stay in the field to do what they can for their Korean fellow churchmen...