Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stops to the existing 40 (which would bring 90 per cent of the population within an hour's drive of an airport), and sink a million dollars into passenger planes to handle the commercial business with Europe, Asia, South America, and within the states. But even so, that would absorb only 5 per cent of the aircraft industry that will exist...
...Issue of domestic bonds based on these loans. These bonds would be presented as long-range savings and it would be hoped that they would 1) absorb some of the recklessly printed banknotes; 2) deter some of the hoarding, which is a form of short-range savings...
Under the new plan, upperclassmen as well as Freshmen will be required to take some form of exercise a certain number of times a week. It will probably necessitate a large expansion of the present intramural system in order to absorb the increased number of students taking part in athletics...
...President was naturally concerned at the possibility of Lewis and Hutcheson, both isolationists, both Republicans, getting control of a labor movement of some 10,000,000 (claimed) members. Moreover, the President could well understand, as Mr. Murray pointed out, that peace negotiations at this point might absorb a lot of time and energy that labor should be expending on the war effort. Something had to be done, quickly. Mr. Roosevelt sent for Murray...
Theory Needed. All these applications still absorb only bucketfuls of the oceans of waste lignin pouring out of U.S. paper mills every day. Big reason for the slowness of lignin utilization is that, in spite of more than 60 years of research by scores of chemists, nobody has yet precisely determined its structure-what atoms in what pattern form its molecule. But when the theory is cleared up, useful applications will follow thick & fast. Reason: chemists will know what they are working with and can abandon the essentially trial-&-error methods now forced upon them. Chief center of molecular lignin...