Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illinois' false start toward a sales tax left the State's unemployment relief program practically stranded. More and heavier borrowing from the U. S. looked like the only way out until the State could revamp its tax machinery to circumvent constitutional objections...
...hoisted aboard- apron and all. For taking off there are catapults on the Westphalen's deck. Also she provides radio, weather forecasting paraphernalia, fuel etc. The Westphalen was chartered by Germany's Lufthansa, which hopes to beat both France and Italy in the race for the first heavier-than-air service to South America. If successful. Lufthansa will co-ordinate the schedules of Dornier flying boats with the sailings of the Graf Zeppelin, making a weekly round-trip service...
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Cambridge's "positron" is a particle of positive electricity no heavier than the particle of negative electricity called the electron. Protons, heretofore considered the smallest unit of positive electricity, weigh 1,850 times as much as electrons. Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac long ago declared that mathematical necessities require the existence of light-weight protons. Last year Caltech's Carl David Anderson noticed some ion tracks which implied impacts from Theorist Dirac's light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford...
...Last week the Soviet upped fares 35% .to discourage idle passenger travel, permit heavier freight movements. The rise came on top ot other increases that have boosted fares in some regions 300% above a year...