Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a collision would be so severe and so precisely located as to penetrate the submarine's hull and its reactor system, the reactor is so located in the ship that water flooding into the ship would also flood the reactor, and prevent the release of any significant amount of radioactivity to the surroundings...
...Showman Mike Todd's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, 26, and Mike Jr., 28. Todd's son by his first marriage, joined in an intricate legal maneuver by which, in effect, they sued themselves for $5,000.000. They asked that amount in damages from 1) two small Jersey corporations that owned and operated the plane in which Todd was killed last March, and 2) Michael Todd Co. (chief stockholders: Liz and Mike), which shared in "maintaining and controlling" the plane. Suing their own company was a fairly standard legal gimmick to provide funds for Liz's 15-month...
Machines draw on cigarettes less frequently, often smoke less tobacco than a fast-puffing, heavy smoker-just the man who needs protection most. King Sano's test smokes little more than half the cigarette's 85-mm. length, also measures only that amount of tar which dissolves in chloroform, misses a lot. The Foster D. Snell labs, which test for Reader's Digest, told the Blatnik subcommittee that the chloroform extraction method measures only 69% of the tar in smoke. On the other hand, Snell tests only 45 cigarettes of each brand...
...completed, another 3,159 miles abuilding. Within a year, says the Bureau of Public Roads, concrete results will become visible across the nation. In 1958 alone, $6.2 billion will be spent on public highways. And next year the figure will ride up to $7.1 billion, more than half the amount that travel-loving Americans are expected to spend on new cars in 1959. Total estimated road outlays from 1959 to 1962: $30.2 billion...
Producer-Director Dick Powell wisely spends a minimum amount of time munching on this knackwurst, trains his cameras as much as possible on the stirring capers of F-86s banging about the sky. He would have been even smarter to hire some tanker planes and never bring the jets down...