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Council of Foreign Ministers organization of the foreign ministers of the World War II Allies—the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR—that, in a long series of meetings, attempted to reach political settlements after the war. In accordance with the agreements reached at... Read more |
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Containment
C ONTAINMENT Barton J. Bernstein The containment doctrine, with its ambiguities and imprecision, was a major strategy and the guiding conception in American foreign policy from shortly after World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in... Read more |
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Sir Dennis Robertson
Sir Dennis Robertson 1890-1963, British economist, grad. Trinity College, Cambridge. A professor at Cambridge (1944-57), he also handled Anglo-American financial relationships during World War II and played an active part in the postwar Bretton Woods Monetary Conference. Robertson was an early... Read more |
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Terrorist Use as a Biological Weapon Anthrax
Anthrax, Terrorist Use as a Biological Weapon ¦ BRIAN HOYLE During the past two decades, the potential use of biological weapons by terrorist groups has received a great deal of attention, particularly in the United States. The existence of an anthrax bioweapon development... Read more |
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Joseph Alsop
Joseph Alsop , 1910-89, and Alsop, Stewart, 1914-74, American political journalists, b. Avon, Conn. Joseph joined (1932) the New York Herald Tribune as a staff reporter and moved (1936) to its Washington, D.C., bureau. His Washington political column, written (1937-40) with Robert E. Kintner... Read more |
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veterinary medicine
veterinary medicine diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the field in Lyons, France, in 1761,... Read more |
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Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov The Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979) is best known for his patriotic verse dealing with World War II and for his vivid prose descriptions of Soviet troops in action during the war. Konstantin Simonov was born on Nov. 28,... Read more |
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Interpol
Interpol acronym for the International Criminal Police Organization, a worldwide clearinghouse for police information. Conceived in 1914, Interpol was formally established in 1923 with headquarters at Vienna. In 1938, it was effectively disbanded by Hitler's Anschluss of Austria. After World War... Read more |
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Merrill Lynch Co. Inc
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 4 World Financial CenterNew York, New York 10080U.S.A.Telephone: (212) 449-1000Fax: (212) 236-4384Web site: http://www.ml.com Public Company Incorporated: 1959 as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & SmithEmployees: 72,000Total Assets: $407.2 billion (2000)Stock... Read more |
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Helicopters
...fly close to the world's land and seas...at the end of World War II, primarily for...States a valuable new offensive weapon...in the Korean War provided impetus...Vietnam a great deal of ... |
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration
...to administer the new system. The...payments.The AAA saved agriculture from...ended the AAA during World War II as agricultural prices...core of post–World War II agricultural ... |
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COMICS CONNECT WITH TIMES OF CRISIS CAPTAIN AMERICA SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES...
...from Cap's World War II career. It...Dery for the World War II chapters. Captain...actions that day saved thousands of...event, Our Worlds at War, where...latter issue ... |
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Letters paint a self-portrait of a hero as a young man. (Raoul Wallenberg...
...how to honor one who saved 100,000? Little...elitist schools of New England and the temptations...Wallenberg saw a great deal of America, from New York to California...several times during the war, and it also was...representative of the ... |
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REVIVE THE BEST OF THE NEW DEAL.(Editorial)(Column)
...everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is...offer for today's world? The answer is a...truth is that the New Deal wasn't as successful...midterm elections. What saved the economy, and...works project known as ... |
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Benjamin V. Cohen: Architect of the New Deal
...Architect of the New Deal. By William Lasser...neutrality. After World War II, Cohen championed...as Cohen rarely saved his correspondence...Shipping Board. After World War I, he joined ... |
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In Greenbelt's Town Center, a Fine New Deal; Inspired Planning Revives...
...not so familiar in the worlds of architecture and urban...the historic suburb saved its splendid New Deal core.Unlike most stock...and obscured by post-World War II additions--pathways...take advantage of ... |
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VICTORY STILL SWEET VETERANS HONOR END OF WORLD WAR II
...of the end of World War II expressed a rainbow...about World War II. When he arrived...about World War II, referring instead...generation truly saved the ... |
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A New Deal for The CIA
...What's required is a new approach to intelligence...one of the great spies of World War II, a Frenchwoman named Jeannie...Tuesday as "the woman who saved London" by warning about...needs protection. In this new "grand ... |
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Your very own Spitfire (for those with [pounds sterling]1.25m and a very big...
...of the planes that saved a nation's future...million each. The new generation of Spitfires...first time since World War II, when legions of...into your blood. World War II fighter ace ... |
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War in a new era. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and...
...isn't a great deal to ridicule...regime, the war probably saved innumerable lives...wisdoms regarding war, peace, and...arrival of a new era. For a hundred...of whether the World War II ... |
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A New New Deal
...If Eliot Spitzer had saved all the money he apparently...the three decades after World War II we had the real thing...limits, as a result of New Deal regulations, on how old...they need to offer a new ... |
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