Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharpest battles will come over heavier taxes levied on major industries hat benefit from specialized federal services. The budget seeks increased fuel and equipment taxes on trucks and buses to bring in another $247 million annually and help defray the additional $5.8 billion that will be needed to finish the 41,000-mile federal highways system. It also asks $240 million more in taxes on aviation fuels and the flourishing air-freight business, and a continuation of the 5% surcharge on airline passenger tickets. Truckers, airlines and inland-waterway operators, the last of which would have...
...help boost gross national product to $660 billion, a $37.7 billion gain. Personal income is expected to rise by $28.6 billion to $520 billion, and corporate profits by $3.9 billion to $61 billion-that is, if the economy steams ahead past mid-1965, the point at which the extra fuel provided by last year's tax cut will be all but spent...
...American Airlines Jan. 3 flight had begun leaking fuel one-half hour off the ground and returned to San Francisco. By 2 a.m. the next morning the students had been given no food or accommodations...
Poison for Toads. The reactor itself was completely gone, its graphite moderator and several hundred pounds of uranium fuel turned to vapor by temperatures above 8,000°F., roughly the same as the surface of the sun. For a fraction of a second before it evaporated, the reactor had generated millions of times as much energy as Hoover...
...smiles and promises. "You ask, and we give you everything," he said, "investments, financing and Cyprus support." Scarcely a month before, another Presidium luminary, Aleksandr Shelepin, had breezed into Cairo to reassure Nasser that the new brass would honor Nikita's commitment for $280 million in credit to fuel Egypt's new five-year plan. Moscow in recent weeks has been sidling up to Pakistan too, using as bait support against India over Kashmir...