Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still-secret N.D.R.C., he was trying to use the same dwindling stocks of gasoline and construction steel (base materials for the synthetic rubber program) for the production of the bomb. At a later crisis, Bush and Conant were called in by the Army to iron out development kinks postponing the day when the first bomb would be assembled. It was inevitable that Conant would be criticized by those...
...life as well as for items used in production, like plows and tractors. Taxes on real estate and interest charges are added. In the month of March 1946, this procedure gave an index of 179, meaning that farm-commodity prices had to be 179% of the 1909-14 base prices to have the same purchasing power...
Third step is to adjust the 1909-14 base period prices by the index of prices paid by the farmer. Thus the parity price for cotton in March was 1.79 times 12.4? , or 22.2? a pound; parity price for wheat was 1.79 times 88.4?, or $1.58 a bushel; for corn...
Superparity Prices. With one eye on this procedure, non-farmers ask: What more does the farm bloc want? The answer : superparity prices. These they hope to get by a combination of tried & true tactics. Already, by shifting some commodities to base periods more favorable than 1909-14, they have won some super-parity prices; of the 157 products now covered by parity prices, only 61 are still tied to the 1909-14 period. Important changelings: tobacco and potatoes...
...original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. . . . The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters...