Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never made the "A" team: a collision with a husky fullback dislocated his shoulder, ended his football days. "What shall I do?" he asked the doctor plaintively. The tongue-in-cheek reply: "Try wrestling." Jimmy Thach did just that, made the wrestling team-and learned to horrify his bigger opponents by throwing his game shoulder out of socket at strategic moments...
Strange Sub. Trieste research on how to kill an enemy sub far down is likely to change depth charges considerably. There is little point in making them bigger; nuclear charges fall no faster than others and are more expensive. But a curious discovery is that more energy may be released when a sphere is collapsed under water than when it is blown outward against pressure. To measure this, Navy scientists once sent a 6-in.-diameter hollow ball 3,500 ft. to the bottom. Collapsed by a spring trigger when it hit, it exploded with as much force...
...last week in a speculative drive that sent Dow-Jones industrials up 2.15 points to 508.28, within four points of the year's high. While confidence in the nation's overall economic health is a factor in the rise, soaring stock prices have outdistanced foreseeable earnings. A bigger factor is the fear of inflation, which has grown so strong that many investors break previously accepted rules in their race to cover themselves against a possible decline in the value of the dollar...
...same is true in cameras. Through the efforts of such topnotch firms as Nikon and Canon, whose cameras are cheaper and almost as good as the best German makes, Japan now enjoys a $6,800,000 export market in the U.S. The Japanese are convinced that it could be bigger still were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from...
Just as important is the Argonne plant's portability. None of its components is bigger than 20 ft. by 9 ft. by 7 ft., and none weighs more than ten tons, so it can be flown anywhere with ease and assembled on the spot. Its enriched uranium fuel supply lasts three years. Once produced in quantity for military use, it may become the long-overdue prototype of a portable U.S. reactor for underdeveloped countries...