Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time or other the Five-Year Plan, launched Oct. 1, 1928. had to end. Impatient Russians could not wait for Oct. i. 1933 so the State coined a slogan: "The Five-Year Plan In Four Years!" But Oct. i, 1932 called for a pace which proved too fast. Arbitrarily last year J. Stalin & Comrades set New Year's Eve last week as the Plan's official deadline. It passed quietly...
...true collectivization demands simultaneous mechanization, the State has turned not 17% but 80% of Russia's sown area into so-called collectives. For the past two years these would-be "grain factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could not supply fast enough, great though its progress has been. Result: a sullen, spontaneous, nation-wide "strike" by Soviet peasants who have refused (and in some instances have been unable) to grow grain in excess of their own needs which the State must have to feed Russia's cities...
...effect of 1) hydrogen and the lighter elements synthesizing into heavier elements, or 2) heavy star material burning to nothing. Professor Russell prefers the synthesis theory, for burning "would not happen except at temperatures of many billions of degrees," whereas "heat should be produced [by atomic synthesis] fast enough to keep the stars shining at temperatures of about twenty million degrees," the apparent temperature of most stars...
...have a popcorn machine, you know how fast the machine converts popcorn to fluffy balls. If you measure the pile of popped corn, you know how long the machine has been working, if it has been operated at a constant rate of production."-Tufts' Alfred Church Lane. With many such "ifs" Professor Lane estimates the present age of uraninite as 1,070,000,000 years, of pitchblende as 1,300,000,000 years.* From those two estimates he sets the age of the Earth at between two and three billion years...
Passing its hurried 30 years of life, the Automotive Industry has been the most aggressive revolutionist in a world of increasing Industrial Revolution. So fast has been its pace that 100 automobile companies have started and quit. But contrary to glib predictions, there have been few casualties since 1929. The cash reserves of good years have been a bulwark against catastrophe...