Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill passed last week by the House, wants the program to be made a permanent part of national policy, with broader presidential powers and a reconsideration of such hobbling provisions as escape clauses and peril points. To answer protectionists, the report points out that 4,500,000 U.S. workers depend directly on foreign trade, contribute to a trade surplus of $6 billion a year. While "it is unavoidable that some of our imports will compete with segments of domestic production . . . American industry is well able to meet such competition." Trade liberalization "will increase the competitive discipline that is a major...
...than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing and timber...
...slap down. If one of them made what physicists euphemistically call an "excursion" -i.e., started to react too fast -it could be slowed down by pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
...into an upturn. In the 1949 and 1954 recessions, housing upturns were bellwethers for the economy. But some economists suspect that housing may no longer be a completely reliable economic indicator. Reason: like many another industry, housing has had the cream skimmed off the top of its market, cannot depend on the backed-up demand that helped it weather the last two recessions...
...worldwide fall in commodity prices has presented the U.S. and the West with a problem of alarming proportions. What should, or must, be done for those underdeveloped nations whose economies depend largely on sales of raw materials? The U.S. commodity index shows a 10% drop in prices in the last year alone. This squeeze has aroused anti-Americanism round the world and handed the Communists a golden opportunity for trade deals and political demonstrations such as those against Vice President Nixon. The price drop has also partially nullified Western aid programs; the United Nations estimates that a 4% drop...