Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also hopelessly impractical, for, while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore...
...production is too small to make such machines pay. In others, products must be completely redesigned before they can be turned out automatically. Furthermore, labor unions worry about the effects of automation on employment. Actually, the effect would be small, at least in the near future; only a fraction of the 17 million Americans who work in manufacturing industries are in any immediate danger of losing their jobs to machines. And the business of making and servicing the new machines themselves would take up most of the slack...
When will the boom end? Probably not for a long time; at the last count, only a fraction of 1% of the available office space was unoccupied. But people who remember Frank Lloyd Wright's prophecy that cities will die and grass grow in the streets are worried about the new office buildings choking the midtown area. Grass may never grow on the streets, but it may some day grow on the roofs of the cars caught in the daily 5 o'clock traffic...
...first six months of this year imports increased by 50%, v. an export gain of only 9%. But the dollar figures showed that the industry has small cause for complaint: U.S. exports in 1952 totaled $616 million, v. imports of $27 million. And imports are still only a tiny fraction of domestic output (about...
...have discovered a hitherto latent or dormant fissionable quality "X" of energy, electricity, power, etc. Example: said quality or X maintains that no original nor initial unit or source of energy, electricity, power, etc., can be truly split nor divided into any fraction of the whole and when split or divided into two or more divisions each said division plus my new invention instantly becomes a separate and complete unit or source of energy, electricity or power each the equal of the said original for doing work...