Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Automobile price ceilings were boosted again last week, for the third time in six months, to absorb the increase in steel prices. For 16 makes of autos the OPA announced new ceilings, averaging 4% to 8% higher than previous ones. None of the increase will be absorbed by dealers. The new f.o.b. prices, all for the popular four-door sedans, are: Dodge DeLuxe, $1,176; De Soto DeLuxe, $1,251; Chrysler Royal, $1,353; Pontiac Six, $1,127; Oldsmobile, $1,163; Buick, $1,250; Cadillac, $1,794; Nash, $1,119; Packard Six, $1,510; Hudson, $1,257; Lincoln...
Since the instructor is essentially the foundation on which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...
...Outman's employes were not content for long. Soon after they had signed, they heard President Truman's wage-price policy speech, in which he declared that industry as a whole could afford substantial wage increases without price increases. The ability of big business to absorb the higher wage costs, said Manufacturer Outman, put smaller concerns at a disadvantage in the competition for efficient labor. The end result: "a production slowdown throughout the small manufacturing concerns...
Disturbance of telegraph and teletype communications is due in part to a phenomenon which stems directly from the abnormal electrical charge carried by the ionized atmosphere. The wires which carry the telegraph circuits absorb from the atmosphere sufficient charge to blank out the original current. Last week Western Union reported induced voltages five times those ordinarily present in a line transmitting messages...
...Colonial empires and sea power belong to the past. The future belongs to vast, continuous land powers (like Russia and the U.S.) with enough space to absorb the aggressive shocks of modern warfare...