Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conn, 58, is one of the nation's top authorities on a form of high blood pressure that used to be dumped into the catchall category of "cause unknown." Not until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves...
...despite repeated warnings from the European Coal and Steel Community, steelmakers have expanded too rapidly. This year, capacity in Britain and the Common Market countries will rise by 10.7 million tons-while orders from such important customers as the construction and auto industries have slacked off. Britain will have excess capacity until 1970. Italy's state-owned Finsider, which supplies 63% of Italian steel, has completed a string of four coastal mills that will help raise national output 26% this year, making Italy a net exporter of steel for the first time and thus increasing pressure on European markets...
...European extremists thinks that free from interference by Britain they can develop the country in the most "sensible" way for both Europeans and Africans. In their alarm they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire of world opinion. They'll need all that fire to light their excess cigarettes--for their prime crop, tobacco, is no longer likely to find many buyers on the world market...
...ignition temperature, burns rapidly and provides high thrust, they kept an experimental scramjet burning in air moving as fast as 7,000 m.p.h. By redesigning their engine's inlet to allow it to gulp air at supersonic speeds, they were also able to eliminate the excessive temperatures and pressures. And they proved that useful thrust could be produced at flight speeds in excess of 17,000 m.p.h...
Poker Game. What followed resembled in some respects a war game, in others a game of poker. First the Administration announced that it would sell 100,000 tons of excess aluminum from the Government's huge stockpile, hoping to pressure the companies by weakening prices (yet denying any such aim). As the Aluminum Co. of America joined the price rise, the Government raised that total to 200,000. Then Alcoa Executive Vice President Leon Hickman, chief negotiator for the industry, vowed that the aluminum producers would stick by their price boosts. Furious at this open defiance, the Texas White...