Word: draining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only wanted Akihito to get out and talk to me," he insisted at police headquarters. "I wanted to convince him that Japan should be a republic." Unaware of what genteel penury the Japanese royal family lives in, he also seemed to think that royal pomp was a heavy drain on the poor...
...help national defense-by increasing drilling and U.S. reserves-the oil industry's own figures last week showed that there need be no worry over reserves. The American Petroleum Institute reported that drilling had declined slightly last year. But a falloff in demand, plus imports, had slowed the drain on U.S. fields. Thus, U.S. crude reserves at the end of 1958 stood at an alltime high of 30,536,000,000 bbl., up 235 million from the total the year before...
Playing conditions were almost impossible, with the field a virtual quagmire. In spots the only solid support was the gravel drain base beneath six inches...
...Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from the beach to his plateau of sand. When the pyramid was about seven feet high it was finished, and the sweating professor toted to the top one of the hooded wicker chairs that are popular on European beaches. There on his sand castle...
...blunt fact that came out of last week's hearings was that the farm subsidy scandal has long since ceased to be a problem to be settled by so-called farm experts. It is a $7 billion drain on the national treasury in a day when the Administration is scratching for money to buy missiles. Whether the Agriculture Secretary's name is Brannan or Benson -or Moses-the farm subsidy problem has become an ever-growing national problem with a direct effect on the national welfare...