Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Base a World War II bomber veteran expresses the spirit of change as he tells of his new B-52, SAC's "Long Rifle." Says he: "Brother, this is the plane to end them all. It takes four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings." But had not he once...
...young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same as it was in the Middle Ages. Starvation, slave camps and the liquidation squads keep ripe old age rare. For the rest, the young are the dictator's ideal dupes with their "excess of energy," their "lack of attachments, their impulse toward sacrifice, their ignorance." They become the zealots; the majority of SS men who ran Buchenwald in 1938 were between the ages...
Increased overcrowding and the resultant far-flung distribution of excess students necessitated the change, it is believed. But even under the new scheme, the University will be overcrowded by 47 percent of its normal occupancy, Watson pointed...
...complaint charging "constant and systematic elimination of actual and potential competitors" with the result that Foremost boosted sales from $52 million in 1950 to $375 million in 1954. FTC Chairman John W. Gwynne has also asked Congress for new powers to require advance notice of all mergers in excess of $10 million, and stronger powers to dissolve mergers that have already taken place...
RENEGOTIATION SQUABBLE is brewing between Boeing Airplane Co. and the U.S. Government. The Government's Renegotiation Board has ruled that Boeing must give back excess profits of $9,822,340, less taxes already paid (on total renegotiable earnings of $54.5 million), for 1952. Boeing points out that its renegotiable profits were only 2.28% of sales and that the board "does not measure the reasonableness of the price of the articles furnished the Government...