Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Before World War II, the networks, it is true, did reform themselves up to a point. Advertising tactics which smacked faintly of blackmail (General Mills once suggested that a character in one of its shows would die for lack of medical attention unless more Wheaties were sold) were reluctantly abandoned...
...gains do not mean that Russia has greatly increased its capital equipment. Dr. Demitri Shimkin, who served on the U.S. Army's General Staff during the war, and is now with Harvard's Russian Research Center, has concluded from a careful study of postwar Russian production figures that the Russians achieved much of their gains by hard use of their old capital equipment. Shimkin's conclusion seems to indicate that after World War II the Russians decided to go on turning out all the war material they could at top speed-rather than to emphasize capital goods...
...Soviet planes are named after their designers. Thus YAK is for Colonel General A. S. Yakolev, MIG is for the designing team of Mikoyan & Gurevich, TU for Andrei Tupolev...
...Lake Success the representatives of 60 nations anxiously waited for nine unhurried Chinese Communists led by a general named Wu Hsiu-chuan. Impatient U.N. delegates mulled over reports that the Chinese would reach New York by Nov. 24, speculated curiously about where the Chinese would eat and sleep. (One popular guess: in the Russians' rented mansion at Glen Cove...
...General Assembly, President Nasrollah Entezam of Iran made a mild attempt to take the Chinese bull by the horns. Entezam wanted to name a seven-nation committee to study the question of whether Nationalist or Communist delegates should represent China in the U.N. Under Russian pressure, Entezam decided to forget his plan temporarily. Like everything else, it would have to wait...