Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leipzig this week," said an old German toymaker, "looks like Nürnberg when the Nazi rallies were held there-except that now the flags are red instead of red and black...
...orders. "Sorry," they were told, "we're only exporting that line to the east." "You know why they encouraged us to come here," said one embittered American buyer. "Because it helps their propaganda along." He pointed to a sign that proclaimed: "Leipzig Fair-Symbol of German Unity...
...future shouldn't be considered from the stand-point of cost and material results, but on a basis of NSA's less tangible contributions, was expressed by Erskine Childers, international vice-President of NSA, who said, "When I think of a Harvard student directing a self-government program with German students under the auspices of NSA, I see a practical contribution...
...Less. All over Colombia and all around Latin America, U.S. businessmen were running into this sort of competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
Kerst is also the betatron's christener. At first he thought of calling it the "Ausserordentlichhochges chwindigkeit-electronenentwickelndesschwerab eitsbei-gollitron," German for "extraordinarily high-speed electron generator, hard work by golly-tron." He settled for "Betatron," from beta particle (high-speed electron...