Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, and the average-grade steer brought about 28? v. 21.7 the same week in 1957. This was good news for beef raisers, glum news for beefeaters. Each 1½ boost will bring almost a 2? rise in the price of dressed beef. Although packers, processors and retailers will absorb much of the increase, some of it will fall on the consumer. Rising beef prices are one of the reasons that the consumer price index, up .2% in February, will probably continue...
Plagued this year by a business recession and climbing unemployment, the government plans to cut back 1958 immigration to something like half of last year's 282,164. But the gates will doubtless swing wider just as soon as a reviving economy can absorb new manpower...
...wild display of popular joy in Jordan last week that followed the unity proclamation in Cairo and Damascus. Yet, said an Iraqi leader: "This is the more natural union." Iraq and Jordan go together geographically, historically, and even-because Iraq has the oil wealth and the living space to absorb Jordan's refugees-economically...
...BECAUSE the X-ray machine can penetrate the surface of a painting without doing any damage, it has long been an indispensable tool for art historians. Layers of paint on canvas (including the liberal amounts of white lead used by old masters to lighten their pigments) absorb X rays in varying amounts, thus producing on a negative a revealing shadowgraph. To the trained art scholar's eye, an X ray of a painting can often reveal its whole history, from the first unseen priming coat the artist put on the canvas, through the artist's corrections and overpainting...
MISSILE MERGER will bring together Reaction Motors, Inc. and Thiokol Chemical Corp., two of industry's fastest-rising pioneers. In $7,200,000 stock exchange, Thiokol, which specializes in solid-fuel engines for Nike-Hercules, La Crosse and Lockheed X-17 missiles, will absorb Reaction, a leader in liquid-fueled engines...