Word: absorbingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department can absorb $18,103,000 of the cuts, Dulles said, even though the eliminated items represent "highly desirable expenditures...
Depression Panacea. Social Credit took its original inspiration from the funny-money theories of Britain's Major Clifford Hugh Douglas, who argued that the state should issue certificates of credit to all citizens, thus provide abundant purchasing power to stimulate and absorb production in a free-enterprise economy. The Social Crediters readily sold their panaceas to the Depression-racked Albertans of 1935. moved to power on a promise to pay every citizen $25 a month. But Social Credit's early efforts to write the Douglas theories into law ran into a formidable legal roadblock; repeatedly, the courts held...
...task of the Naval Research Laboratory was to find a surface for the satellite that 1) does not absorb much solar energy, and 2) gets rid of the energy that it does absorb without becoming too hot. When the satellites came from their manufacturer, Brooks & Perkins, Inc. of Detroit, they were thin-skinned magnesium spheres plated with gold. Aluminum is better for reflecting sunlight, but since aluminum will not stick to gold, the gold had to be covered with a thin film of chromium. Aluminum will stick to chromium, but it also mixes with it and loses part...
...third realized," said Major General Walter K. Wilson Jr., Army Engineers deputy chief of construction. Said Association President Peter C. Spowart of publicly owned Seattle City Light: "Private utilities can hardly be expected to support an effort beyond their own power requirements. Only a regionwide, publicly owned agency can absorb these costs...
THREE-WAY MERGER will put Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., biggest U.S. lumber producer (but second to diversified Crown-Zellerbach in overall business) into the finished-container field for first time. In face of sagging U.S. lumber sales, Weyerhaeuser will absorb Chicago's Eddy Paper Corp. and New Jersey's Kieckhefer Container Co. in $200 million stock swap, emerge as fully integrated lumber-pulp-container producer, with annual earnings of about $65 million...