Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard gore would flow...
...until the second year of the second Five-Year Plan (1934) that Soviet national income returned to its 1913 level. And by 1938 it was only 50% more than it had been in. 1913 (in the same period U.S. national income more than doubled). ¶In 1940, the Soviet flow of goods and services was equal in value to 32.5 billion U.S. dollars. (U.S. flow was $100 billion...
Blame for Railroads? The car builders replied that the steel did not come in an even flow, that this had caused unbalance in the supply of parts, etc. But the railroad companies' own car-building shops, supposedly working under the same conditions, had slightly exceeded their quotas. Scheduled to build 15% of the new cars, they had actually built 27% of all cars in August...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...
...workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...