Word: cheaper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in 1903, rolls of completed blueprints were rushed up to Boston. Experts in the College's engineering department conducted laboratory experiments through the Spring, and finally decided a cement beam with twisted steel rods running through it would be stronger and cheaper than either stone, brick, or steel. This reinforced concrete was used throughout the structure...
...CHEAPER titanium, the wonder metal used in jet engines, is on the way. Monsanto Chemical Co. and Massachusetts' National Research Corp. have developed a speedy new process which bypasses the intermediate step of converting ore into titanium "sponge," instead produces titanium crystals that can be melted directly into ingots. The government is about ready to let a long-term purchase contract, lend a good part of the estimated $60 million needed for a mass production plant...
...first time since the Eisenhower Administration took office, the Treasury saw a chance last week to borrow money at cheaper interest rates. The opportunity was provided by a spectacular turnabout in the Government securities market, as investors briskly bid up prices, thus lowering proportionately the interest rate the Treasury will have to pay to finance new debts. For the first time since they were issued, the Government's new 3¼% 30-year bonds soared past 102, and 2½% Victory Loan bonds went up to 93 30/32, their best price since April. The upturn in the short-term...
...such provisions to freeze current high-interest rates into an issue for long periods, let the clause stand, only because it thought Arkansas Louisiana probably could not have got the money without it. But the clause was a tacit admission by the lenders that they believed money would become cheaper...
...industry's pace setter, is making the greatest changes, in January will bring out new bodies on all its five lines of cars. There will be two principal new types of bodies. One, three inches lower and two inches longer than 1953 models, will probably go into the cheaper models of the Buick and Olds lines. The other, an inch lower and five inches longer than current models, is planned for the bigger Buicks and Oldsmobiles and cheaper Cadillacs. Most G.M. cars will have wider vision with one-piece "wraparound" windshields. Cadillac, which is boosting its horsepower from...