Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolsters the authority of federal courts by making it a federal crime to obstruct any court orders "by threats or force." Originally, the Administration called for restricting this to court orders involving only school desegregation, but Southerners won their fight to expand the statute into all fields, e.g., labor disputes...
...lung that would automatically feed him safe compressed air so that he could swim with both arms. To be safe, a diver must have air in his lungs at the same pressure as the surrounding water. With less pressure, his lungs may be crushed; with more, they may expand until they rupture. To survive. Cousteau required a device that gave a diver air at pressures that matched the changing weight of water as he sank and rose...
...Bubbles. For the untrained or careless diver, Aqua-Lunging presents a host of dangers: swimming too long in cold water can subtly bleed off his body heat until he finds himself suddenly exhausted ; holding his breath during the last 30 ft. of ascent can rupture his lungs as they expand under the rapidly decreasing pressure; successive deep descents can cripple him with the old diver's disease of the bends unless he decompresses the nitrogen bubbles in his blood by lingering at graduated stages...
...surplus, prices would be lower, and competition increased if the quotas were abolished. While free market competition would drive the price down temporarily, Cuba in a pinch could probably produce sugar more cheaply than other nations, thus dominate the U.S. market. Cuba, which now limits its output, could expand it, squeeze out many foreign competitors and U.S. domestic sugar producers, which supply 53% of the U.S. market. Elimination of the quota system would bring violent price swings and leave the U.S. open to high prices or shortages during an international crisis, such as Suez or the Korean...
...chemicals and aluminum is bound to rise apace. When exports slack off, the company can always intensify its efforts to sell at home, where aluminum consumption is still low (7 lbs. per person v. 21 lbs. in the U.S.). When the domestic market slackens, it need only expand its export market. There, it sells aluminum at about 8% lower than U.S. and Canadian competitors...