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...reduction of running life. A missile must be dependable, but it does not have to be built (like an airplane engine) so well that it will last for thousands of hours. In most cases a few minutes or hours is all the life it needs. When designers and manufacturers adjust their thinking to take advantage of this fact, great savings will result. One authority believes that if all possible savings are realized, a guided missile will cost only one-tenth as much as an airplane built for comparable duty...
...frontier settled down, they too began to build stone churches with stained-glass windows, and adjust their forms and liturgies to the traditional patterns of the middle class. Gradually a new, American kind of Protestantism came into being, a blur of church and sect, of institutionalism and enthusiasm, still bearing the tolerant, "do-gooding," democratic marks of the frontier...
...order to adjust scholarship applications to the University's recently announced 15 percent rent increase, Monro has been negotiating with Housemasters to get information he needs to deal with specific cases...
Buck noted that the new budget, contrary to the measures of some colleges, will adjust to new sizes in the student body without injuring in the least the essence of the educational system, the permanent faculty...
Producer Bosustow (rhymes with adjust so), 39, who spent seven years with Disney, has built his outfit from six employees to a company of 75, with a $500,000-a-year business and a modern studio in Burbank, Calif. Since Columbia began releasing his cartoons two years ago at the rate of one a month, bookings have almost doubled...