Word: dampers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allow surplus food to be sent) and blocked aid to any nation that seizes private U.S. property without prompt steps toward compensation. Last week the anger welled up in the House to produce a similar expropriation penalty, including a retroactive clause to punish Brazil-and thus put a damper on the Alliance for Progress. The House also rushed through a drastic amendment denying any special U.S. aid to the United Nations until all other nations had met all of their U.N. financial obligations-a ban that, in effect, would give any nation a veto over field operations...
...given the power to control margins in 1934 in order to prevent a repetition of 1929, when the crash was intensified by the vast number of speculators operating largely on credit. So when stock prices soar and speculators' borrowing increases, the Reserve Board raises margins as a damper. Traditionally, when credit to securities buyers falls about 10%, the Fed interprets it as a sign that speculative pressure has ended and cuts margins. Currently, credit to securities buyers stands at $5 billion-about 12% below the figure when the market started slipping from its alltime high last December...
Though it was cold, the hunters clung there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
...After ruling Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. for 34 years and transforming it from a one-horse manufacturer of furnace damper controls into a $426 million producer of computers and automatic controls for everything from ice cream plants to missiles, Harold W. Sweatt, 70, finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer. Elevated to the throne was President Paul Barclay Wishart, 63, Honeywell's crown prince for eleven years. An Annapolis graduate (class of '20), the natty, articulate Wishart ran a Packard agency in Minneapolis until 1942 when he came to Honeywell as a coordinator...
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. built its first control in 1885-a "damper flapper" for coal-furnace flues. In the space age, 44 of the 54 U.S. satellites have used its guidance controls...