Word: better
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political ideas injected into the film, they sound out of place among the jokes. Moreover, there is small guarantee that little countries would be much better guardians of supernuclear power than big countries; if the world's nuclear weapons were buried in Lichtenstein, there soon would be few Lichtensteiners for all the foreign agents...
...Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite, it proved to be five times as strong as ordinary graphite, keeps its strength at temperatures up to 6,700° F., also has the extraordinary property of conducting heat 100 times better along its main surfaces than perpendicular to them...
...want to sound like a Pollyanna," said a steelman last week, "but so far, everything is going better than we dreamed it could." With its 500,000-man labor force back on the job, the nation's steel industry was making an amazing comeback. Barely a week after the first furnaces were fired up again, the mills were up to 45.9% of capacity, and turning out 1,300,000 tons of steel. This week output should be clipping along at better than 60%, well ahead of the first estimates...
...staggering. Though only 30% of the seeded oysters produced pearls, there were thousands of big, beautiful pearls; the best was nine-tenths of an inch in diameter and turned out to be worth $4,900; eight others were appraised between $3,000 and $4,000; another 100 were worth better than $1,000 apiece. For their work and know-how, the Japanese got 50% of the crop; the rest went to the Australians and the American...
...these complaints, the unions' reply is that many so-called featherbedding practices are actually required for safety reasons by many states, that cutting down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come to regard featherbedding as a sort of fringe benefit, making up for the fact that railroad men have to sit by the phone for long hours without pay while waiting for a call to work, get no premium pay for nights, Sundays or holiday work, are not paid for away-from...