Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exotic" fuels (TIME, April 1) containing high-energy Boron will also lengthen the range. But the Hustler's speed cannot be increased merely by reducing drag or adding to the thrust of its engines. It already flies so fast that the limiting factor on its speed is the amount of friction-generated heat that its metal skin and its three-man crew (pilot, navigator-bombardier and defensive-systems operator) can stand...
...guarded 1954 position ("some evidence of a statistical association"), last week announced: "There is an increasing and consistent body of evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer . . . and there is a direct relationship between the incidence of lung cancer and the amount smoked...
...Bathtubful. Are fluorides poisonous? Yes, says Dr. Dublin-in the same way as common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them." But, he adds, "to absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . during a single...
...gave up any attempt to count them. Rather than cutting cotton surpluses through the soil bank, Harris had made the cotton surplus considerably worse. The 9,000 to 13,500 bales of cotton that he will grow on his new farm will take away the market for an equivalent amount of other cotton grown in compliance with the rules. This other cotton will end up in Government warehouses, causing the taxpayers a further loss...
...amount a man makes on his regular job does not necessarily determine whether he moonlights. It is the amount he wants to spend. Said a Chicago white-collar worker who drives a cab as a second job: "If you want to have a family and kids and a car and a house and TV, either your wife works or you work double." The California Teachers Association studied moonlighting among 17,000 male teachers under 30, found that 10,000 held other jobs, checking in supermarkets, clerking in clothing stores, selling insurance, etc. Among the married, the proportion ranged...