Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the fiscal year ending June 30, the U.S. will take in $67.7 billion instead of an estimated $64.5 billion. This will be more than enough, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey told Congress last week, to absorb an increase in Federal spending from the budgeted $64.3 billion to $65.9 billion. As a result, the U.S. budget for fiscal 1956 will have a surplus of $1.8 billion-eight times the expected $230 million. Treasury's Humphrey had a happy explanation for the welcome news: "The upsurge of prosperity in the nation has increased current Federal budget receipts...
...soljer," Burgess would drop those unwilling or unable to absorb atom-age training. Said he: "We have no place for the half-lazy, the half-talented in today's complex military structure...
...acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...
Beyond atomics, the three companies see a new market opening up for low-priced zirconium. Eventually, they hope to produce a slightly lower-grade zirconium for as little as $3.50 a Ib., well within the pocketbooks of dozens of industries from electronics (where it is used to absorb oxygen in vacuum tubes) to machine tools. Estimates are that the U.S. chemical industry alone can use big quantities to cut its losses of $500 million annually from corrosion of pipes, valves and tanks...
...uranium, does not fission in this way, but when it is struck by high-speed neutrons from a sufficiently powerful detonator, it undergoes a variety of nuclear reactions. Some of its atoms split, splattering into middleweight atoms (fission products) and giving off enormous energy. Other U-238 atoms absorb a neutron, then eject two neutrons, turning into atoms of telltale...