Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descriptive passages; it fails generally to get anything across, for psychological drama is fostered by change and development in the characters and mood which here remain static. The motivating secrets with which the men enter upon the scene are still secrets when they leave, and the reader refuses to absorb the mood when he cannot understand its source. This morbid flavor of the 'twenties, without the disillusioned bitterness toward mankind which produced it, is meaningless...
...same policy is in effect regarding the industry's defense work, in spite of the fact that most companies lack enough assignments to absorb the men and facilities that are being released by curtailment of automobile production. Analysis of 104 random defense contracts in the industry shows 45% of the dollar value being let out in the form of subcontracts...
...Copper Range) for all the copper they could dig-perhaps 20,000 tons a year. The deal: the mines were to get it above their "out-of-pocket" mine costs, about 15? or 16? (depending on the producer). The U.S. will still release the copper to fabricators at 12?, absorb the difference. Similar offers will doubtless soon be made to other high-cost mines (like Miami Copper's low-grade Castle Dome property in Arizona). But the Government doesn't think that any price in the firmament can pry loose much more than 75,000-100,000 tons...
...acre airfield owned by Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Bucks County, Pa. This saved hauling countless tons of gravel and sand to mix with the cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
...expanded aircraft capacity will produce little after World War II except unemployment. Optimists think otherwise. Some expect the personal plane to become as common as the automobile. (General Motors, through its subsidiary General Aircraft Corp. in Lowell, Mass., is already experimenting with a "spin-proof" cheap plane.) But to absorb U.S. big-plane capacity, a whole new industry must come to the aid of the passenger transport lines. Confidently expected by many an airman, the new industry, air freight, is already out of swaddling clothes...