Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambitious plan for solution of this problem, blueprinted on the TVA model for the states of Sinaloa, Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, is to add thousands of square miles of newly arable land (see map). That, he hopes, will not only ease the pressure of population, but will yield corn and wheat enough to enable Mexico at last to feed itself. Chances are that most of these acres will be developed as small tracts, under private ownership. Significantly, Aléman's first agrarian measure was a law protecting the medium-sized farms that survived the land expropriations from...
Ammonium nitrate, whose blast wrecked Texas City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) is all too easy to make. The recipe: add ammonia to dilute nitric acid...
...some of them were shocked when the Bell-controlled board of eleven directors awarded him 1) a five-year contract at a minimum of $55,000 a year; 2) a $160,000 annuity which would add some $10,000 to the $18,000-a-year pension which he is slated to receive at 60; 3) a royalty of $5 for each unit sold over 5,000 of a motorized wheelbarrow that Bell invented. The directors also set up a stock option plan for Bell to buy up to 50,000 shares of common at prices as low as half...
...Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost the only item he refuses to work on is coffins, because "you can't improve on death.") All told, the gross sales of products he designed, or packaged, currently add up to more than...
...Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom-a development which would rouse no enthusiasm in rival Arab states...