Word: compacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third straight monthly cutback, dropping the flow to 2,803,000 barrels a day v. 3,146,920 in August. Since there is an oil surplus, it was a safe bet that the 21 other states in the Interstate Oil Compact Commission would follow suit. Texas, producing 45% of U.S. oil, has dominated the Interstate Oil Commission since it was created by the Governors' Conference in 1935. And Thompson has dominated -the Texas commission, as well as U.S. oil conservation practices, for longer than that...
...compact little factory on the outskirts of Washington, executives and technicians from 200 companies in the electronics industry last week inspected a secret project of the Navy. After three years, and $4,700,000 spent in experiments on "Project Tinkertoy," the Navy and the National Bureau of Standards had developed an almost automatic assembly line for many electronic parts...
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). Making novels into movies-turning the rambling equations of a story into the compact formula of drama-is a task perhaps fitter for some electronic calculating monster than for any human talent. That may explain why Hollywood, whose talent is all too human, has never developed a sure touch in these translations. Columbia's success in bringing James Jones's bestselling novel to the screen may be due partly to the fact that it was hardly a novel at all; it was an obscene, extravagant blot of ink, pressed between covers into something...
...knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
WEST GERMANY, encouraged by the success of a $40 million trade compact signed with Red Bulgaria, announced "direct consultations" with the Kremlin; Ruhr manufacturers dreamed of the good old days when Hitler's Drang nach Osten sent 12% of all German exports off to the East...