Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
...make up the revenue elsewhere. It would increase taxes on large corporation profits from the present 38% to 41% to bring in $433,000,000. With the prospect of another $500 million from plugging loopholes in other tax laws, the committeemen hoped to get their excise tax cuts past the President...
...French Foreign Ministry. Their task is to hammer out an agreement which will give substance to Robert Schuman's bold plan for pooling Western Europe's coal and steel industries. To most of the delegates it means the practical beginning of an undertaking which in the past has been little more than an oratorical flourish: Western Europe's union. But above the hopeful voices in Paris was audible a disturbing buzz-the voice of doctrinaire Socialism...
...Soviet science. In a new full-length picture (Alexander Popov), People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. Nicolai Cherkassov (who looks a little like Henry Fonda) enacts the life of Russia's scientist. Popov, in the U.S.S.R.'s campaign to claim all the inventions of the past half-century, is the man who invented the radio. In the picture, Popov triumphs, despite the conniving of an "Italo-British adventurer" named Marconi "who, while still inexperienced in scientific matters, was nevertheless an aggressive grabber of other people's ideas and inventions...
China's Communists, warned Mao, must conquer complacency and stop thinking of themselves as heroes. Despite past successes, the Communist government still had to deal with vital problems, particularly in the more recently "liberated" areas, which support an estimated 310 million of China's people. In these areas, Mao admitted: "There are still more than 400,000 bandits [i.e., Nationalist guerrillas] to be annihilated; the land problem has not been solved; industry and commerce have not been properly adjusted; unemployment is still serious, and social order has not yet been stabilized...