Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical, if not idealistic reasons: drained by war, the U.S. for a long while would need far more lead, copper, tin, natural rubber, etc., than it could hope to produce or substitute synthetically. And in the long run, the U.S. would not be able to absorb all of the tremendous flow of goods which it is capable of producing, would need bigger outside markets to buy them...
...acres, an area almost three times the size of California. Estimated oil potential of these acres: up to 20 billion bbls. Current production is now 200,000 bbls. a day (up from 18,000 two years ago), and the Far Eastern market is not able to absorb anywhere near enough oil to warrant all-out production in the Arabian fields...
...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...
...steel, the price barometer for the bulk of mass production, there was no rise, despite a $5-per-ton jump in scrap prices. On the basis of nine months' profits and this quarter's operations (90% of capacity), most steel companies could easily absorb the scrap increase, and will probably absorb other small cost increases as well...
...ever arrives. It is very probably this skimming off of much of Boston's dance money that is the cause for the incredibly small audiences seen in the Opera House since Monday. It is a sad fact, but an obvious one which Miss Chase and Mr. Smith ought to absorb, that no city in the United States except New York is likely to support two ballet companies running within hailing distance of one another...