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...r Egypt is very poor in oil and natural gas reserves, at least when compared to the other Arab countries of the Persian Gulf and North Africa. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gamal Nasser, an Egyptian military officer, tried to unite all Arabs in one country, under his leadership, in order for Egypt to control the oil of the Persian Gulf. This essay briefly describes Nasser’s e...

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...States Air Force (USAF) doctrine first formulated by Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces leaders before and during World War II—later modified in the 1950s after the USAF became a separate service....

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...INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 AIRPOWER THEORY AND DOCTRINE IN THE 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Airpower Enters the Vietnam War . . . . . . . . 8 America Is Drawn in Deeper . . . . . . . . . . . .10 DEVELOPMENT OF THE B-52 STRATOFORTRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...This paper reviews the development of antigravity research in the US and notes how research activity seemed to disappear by the mid 1950s. It then addresses recently reported scientific findings and witness testimonies - that show us that this research and technology is alive and well and very advanced. The revelations of findings in this area will alter ...

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... Arms Control: The Early Years . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Michael O. Wheeler 2 Peace through Strength Alone: US Air Force Views on Arms Control in the 1950s and Early 1960s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Edward Kaplan PART II Strategic Arms Limitations, 1969–80 3 The Road to SALT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Anne G. Campbell 4 Strategic...

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...o Associates LLC, at the request of Sam Garcia, Jr., and Jon Garcia, and accompanies a collection of historical accounts dating from the 1790s to the 1950s. The larger study was undertaken as a part of a planning and land use program for a small parcel of land which the Garcia brothers inherited from their mother, Marjorie Kalehua Cockett-Garcia. The 5.497 acre parcel of l...

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...ynesian dictionary. Partly because of the increased interest in Hawaiiana, many books have appeared since the first edition was compiled in the early 1950s. Those sources most productive of new entries and additional meanings of old entries include the following (see the References for bibliographic details): Handy and Pukui 1958, Ii 1959, Gosline and Brock 1960, Kamakau 1...

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...agricultural scientist, who as a young academic migrated from England to assume the mantle of Sir Samuel Wadham at the University of Melbourne in the 1950s. From that base he was instrumental in the creation in Africa of what became the International Livestock Research Institute – one of the 15 green revolution centres that support third world research. Having expanded the...

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...st three editions of the Hawaiian-English Dictionary have in this volume been revised and expanded. The original notes were written during the early 1950s, and since that time the number of students of Polynesian languages has increased considerably, with resulting increase in knowledge of these languages. This new Grammar, therefore, presents an approach rather differen...

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...alia, the author, Tony Kelly also describes his travels in Europe and Canada which included a journey by horseback in the Rocky Mountains in the late 1950s. The book provides a social history of farming life in South Australia during the 1940s and 50s and captures the excitement of agricultural development in Western Australia during the 1960s. A time when many people head...

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.... His name was 32 Tommy and he was in his early twenties. He had a vaguely 1950s look with his Elvis-style hair, white T-shirt and boots. He w... ...e was an engineer, born in Chicago, who had been stationed in East Anglia in the 1950s and 1960s, where he met and married local girl Barbara Edmund...

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...Haaretz, published December 16, 2004: “one day in Jerusalem of the early 1950s, Shlomo Shoham, later an Israel prize-winning author and criminologi...

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...ative, too, was thwarted after the publication of the first issue. In the 1950s, Baal HaSulam described the situation with a mixture of great sadnes...

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...gy. I subsequently spent a year at a Danish folk college, whose headmaster gave daily lectures on the pagan mythology of the Nordic folk. Until the 1950s not much had been done on the relationship between Ibsen and Nordic myth. In the words of Pavel Frænkl: From the myth and legend [of his early works] to the "domestic" subjects [of his later dramas] Ibsen's deat...

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...a” (1912) -- 34 -- Abraham Fornanders Tradition Of Kamapuaa (1919) --37 -- Sites Of Oahu (1978) --40 -- “Sacred Falls” – A Visitor Attraction In The 1950s --41 -- Mahele aina–Land Tenure Defined In The Land Division --42 -- Kaluanui In The Mahele Book Of 1848, And Disposition Of The Land --43 -- Hoaaina Claims At Kaluanui: Mahele Aina Registration, Testimonies, And Surv...

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... 130 oral history interviews that have been conducted by Kepa Maly over the last twenty-eight years. The interviewees were born between the 1890s to 1950s, and all shared personal knowledge—either in native beliefs, traditions, customs and practices; the locations of, and types of fish caught; or about the changing the conditions of the resources—in Hawaiian fisheries. T...

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...Tom Corbett - Space Cadet was one of the first multimedia sensations. In the 1950s the character had his own radio show, TV series, comic book, breakfast cereal, and a line of young-adult novels. A cross between Tom Brown's School Days and Horatio Hornblower (and loosely based upon Robert A. Heinlein'...

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...g readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880's or the Dick and Jane primers of the 1950s (still around today as decodable readers in elementary schools). She produced this volume based on Daniel Defoe's most famous work, considered by many to be the first English novel (1719). She also rendered Bunyan's Pil...

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...l self replicators & assemblers John von Neumann: Universal Constructor (1950s) A Universal Constructor would be a computer linked to a manufactur...

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...if done right, the latter will prevail by far. If we watch movies from the 1950s and 60s, they often seem naïve to us, a bit out of touch with the “... ...oneY “D espite massive wealth creation, happiness has not risen since the 1950s in the US or Britain… No researcher questions these facts. So accel...

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...it incorporated almost everything found in today‘s high-speed computers. 1950s  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.... ...erbacks, back around 1955, shows that during pretty much the entire 1940s–1950s the price we paid for a paperback as well as for a gallon of gas ave...

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...it incorporated almost everything found in today‘s high-speed computers. 1950s  Rotating magnetic drums for internal storage of data and programs.... ...erbacks, back around 1955, shows that during pretty much the entire 1940s–1950s the price we paid for a paperback as well as for a gallon of gas ave...

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...d Silverstein stood out. Jordi showed a dogged ability to track down obscure 1950s songs that was almost scary. Addi- tional thanks go to Jennifer Ma,... ...an ordinary person would want, or be able, to engage in. In the world of the 1950s, these assumptions make some sense—though we might still disagree w... ...is happened. Intellectual property rights simply played a lesser role in the 1950s music business than they do today, both for better and for worse. L... ...t sounded good but to contrast the image of the fantasy woman from Charles’s 1950s soul, who is faithful, sensual, and always willing to offer a loan,... ...en except as a source of money. Even the retro cover of the single, with its 1950s-style pinup drawing of a white model, seems to draw the connection.... ...e finest, most atomic level of science and culture—the world of folk music or 1950s jazz, of jokes and slang and recipes, of Ray Charles’s “rewording” ... ...omain is at the stage that the American environmental movement was at in the 1950s. In 1950, there were people who cared strongly about issues we woul... ...r since the mid-19th century. They also point out that, at least through the 1950s, economists have been skeptical about this argument. The problem, a...

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...rs respond with "Shhh." Tomorrow night the program calls for George Pal's 1950s adventure, "Destination Moon." A real classic and a must-see. You...

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...sticforembedding ofagraphonlocallyorientablesurfaceisused by Ringel in the 1950s and gave a formal proof by Stahl in 1978([22][62]). From the topologi...

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...had taken so long to develop effective solar power. He told me that in the 1950s he had a solar powered radio that he used to take to the beach when ...

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...ete Markets Merton (1977) extended the dynamic theory of financial markets. In the 1950s, Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu (both Nobel Prize winners...

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...ation, the most famous being the so-called 'wonder rice' varieties. In the 1950s, an international testing station was established in the Philippines,... .... Turner 1974a,b. 76. Herbert Phillips’s study Thai Peasant Personality (1950s) identifies values that have been considered important in the villag...

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...alita extreme left party; some politically active Communists deported during 1950s; small number of North Vietnamese Member of: EIB (associate), WFTU,... ...e for the island Government leaders: Sir Robert R. REX, Premier (since early 1950s); John SPRING- FORD, New Zealand Representative (since 1974) Suffra...

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...agged behind technical invention and innovation (see Chapter 9). 68 In the 1950s the work of a group of researchers out of Columbia Universit...

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...ork much less than Americans. Europeans worked more than Americans in the 1950s and 1960s, when they were pressed in their war reconstruction effort... ... increases sufficiently. In Europe this has happened a few times since the 1950s. They produced more while working less. But in the last thirty years... ... do not think that virginity is such a gift. While it was in vogue in the 1950s, at this point in time virginity has moved down the list for most peo...

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...unions and meetings on opportune or critical occasions. This was true well into the 1950s. However, a series of developments in the second half of ...

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...unions and meetings on opportune or critical occasions. This was true well into the 1950s. However, a series of developments in the second half of ...

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...atles’ origin traces back to the growing British skiffle craze in the late 1950s, and they were mainly inspired by Elvis Presley. The 1960s were influ...

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...un (Pep- sin). Since Kroc first offered franchises to in- dividuals in the 1950s, McDonald’s has be- come the world’s leading food service retailer wi...

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...n of the Department of State as having such a limited role. Until the late 1950s, the department dominated the processes of advising the president and... ...n of the W orld W ar II generation rose to the challenges of the 1940s and 1950s.They restructured the government so that it could protect the country... ...reorganize in midstream. But some of the main innovations of the 1940s and 1950s, including the creation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and even the con...