Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this the most effective method of weakening the aggressive motives of the Russian government? It seems to foreclose any possibility of increased contact between Russians and the West. It provides a bona fide foreign threat against which the Soviet government can organize. It puts the development of backward economies, the development of free institutions, and the development of a common loyalty to the United Nations in a position clearly inferior to the development of military establishments...
Professor Cecil Frank Powell, 46, the committeeman who won the $31,715 prize for physics, got his award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done...
...fixing," he said, ". . . discourages production and stimulates consumption, and the latent inflation may do more damage when it breaks out later than if it had been allowed to run its course in the first place . . . Price-fixing has always failed, from Diocletian* to Truman . . ." Free prices "provide the best method of stimulating production of the things that are really needed, and of restricting consumption of the things that are in short supply." To Leffingwell, frozen wages are no better than frozen prices: they "tend to retard the movement of men from nonessential to essential jobs ... I do not believe...
...method of getting economic cooperation between German's Ruhr and French industry, and at the same time effectively controlling German war potential might seem a godsend for Europe. When Foreign Minister Robert schuman of France Proposed a plan last year with these objects as its ends, many people, including members of the U.S. State department, considered it such...
This was the case in Korea. While the new definition would probably not have subdued in the least the stream of propaganda which flowed out of the hills of North Korea, the method for determining aggressors would have made it a little harder for the North Koreans to explain why it was they, and not the South Koreans, who were deep inside the other's territory...