Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speak with equal authority on both subjects, since agencies that are responsible for the development of atomic weapons (AEC, Department of Defense) have different objectives from groups that are concerned primarily with the control of disease (e.g., the Public Health Service). Nonetheless, the scientists found agreement in several areas: fallout patterns vary in different parts of the world; debris comes to earth more rapidly than was once thought. And some new information was made public...
Even with the loss, the U.S. still has half the world's monetary gold. But there is a question how long the U.S. can afford to lose gold without feeling it. By law the Treasury must have gold reserves equal to 25% of the Federal Reserve's notes and deposits, or about $12 billion. It also must be able to redeem some $16.6 billion in foreign time deposits in U.S. banks, foreign-held U.S. Government securities and similar claims. In the unlikely event all foreign claimants demanded to be paid off in gold at once, the gold backing...
Joel Landau may try to equal his sensational quadruple of last year. Landau should take the hurdles, and he and Eli Steve Snyder have run almost identical times in the dashes. Varsity men Sandy Dodge, if his injured leg holds out, and Frank Yeomans will threaten the leaders, as will Bulldog Dave Bain...
...already wrapped up football, basketball and hockey, and this after noon at 3 p.m. they send their strongest tennis team in years against the varsity on the Soldiers Field courts. The Crimson, however, after an impressive 8-1 victory over Williams yesterday, figures to be ready and more than equal to the challenge...
...aluminum plants. First step is to build a 230-ft.-high dam near Kosombo (see map), 60 miles northeast of Accra, then add two satellite dams. They would generate 974,000 kw. (100 times as much as produced now in Ghana), back up a man-made lake that would equal the world's biggest (3,500 sq. mi.), which itself would create a new fishing industry to improve the protein-shy Ghanaian diet. Cost of dams, generating plants, power lines: $325 million...