Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists bumped into the method of uranium fission. After the war the President had vetoed allout effort on an H-bomb because it was not worth the regimentation of the economy and enormous expense. But the Russian atomic explosion had drastically clipped the atomic lead upon which a great deal of U.S. security and strategy was based. A group of top scientists went to work on a new analysis. Their report: granted a huge concentration of effort, a guarantee of ironclad priorities and some two to four billion dollars, they could, in from two to four years, build the necessary...
Unless Nozaka has the inclination and power to defy the Kremlin, he will have to give way to Secretary General Kyuichi Tokuda. Among the Communist rank & file, the Cominform blast caused great consternation. Said Yasusuke Sanejima, a printer: "I'm astounded and shocked. I don't know what to think until we receive instructions from the party...
...best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game at the Dynamo Stadium, are owned by the Soviet elite-Communist Party members and officials. The women bricklayers (bottom left) are putting up a new building on Gorky Street, one of the best...
Rich in songs is the history of slavery. Toiling on the Great Pyramids, Egyptian slaves intoned rhythmical chants (sample: "Hey, you, work! You, get up!"). Dixie's Negroes put body & soul into their work songs. Volga boatmen were soothed by the haunting tautology of Ei Ukhnem. More recently, political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps composed and sang such songs as the now famous Peat-Bog Soldiers...
Give us Peter the Great...