Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PACKARD hopes to beat other automakers out with a new torsion-bar-ride-control mechanism, which it believes will give it the easiest riding car in the industry. The torsion-bar mechanism operates by electricity to cut down side-sway and absorb bumps, will be installed as standard equipment on 1955 high-priced Packard lines...
Japan's pressing, problem, said the three governors, is self-support. "To accomplish this all-important economic necessity Japan must have access to resources and markets in Southeast Asia ... It is difficult for the free world to absorb the full output of a vigorous Japanese economy. Therefore, we recommend limited and controlled trade with Red China as well as increased trade between Japan and her non-Communist neighbors. The former must be so restricted and so regulated that it will help develop a program of self-subsistence for Japan and not build...
ALUMINUM PRICES may go up soon. C.I.O. Steelworkers asked Aluminum Company of America for same wage boost won in the steel industry. Alcoa says it cannot absorb the raise without a price boost...
AIRLINE MERGER between National and Colonial has been okayed by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Though the two lines have not yet started negotiations, CAB, which earlier approved a plan (later vetoed by President Eisenhower) by Eastern to absorb Colonial (TIME, March 8), said that a merger between Colonial and Eastern's rival, National, would be in the public interest...
...send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board at 24 ft., and dum-dum slugs smeared with a mixture of potassium...