Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only recently commercially. The Connies gross 32 ½ more tons than the DC-35 and are 100 miles an hour faster. We are earning for TWA 8co% more than the pay load of the DC-35. We are asking less than 1% of that added revenue for flying this heavier, faster, more productive equipment. The salary should be commensurate to the job performed...
Artistically, Song of the South could have used a much heavier helping of cartooning. Technically, the blending of two movie mediums is pure Disney wizardry. Ideologically, the picture is certain to land its maker in hot water. Tattered ol' Uncle Remus, who cheerfully "knew his place" in the easygoing world of late 19th
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...
...condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this process which do not sit lightly on a civilized conscience. . . . Certainly, if we had been defeated ... we should have had some difficulty in justifying...
Confidently, Mr. Truman saw meat ahead. Grass-fed cattle (chased from high plateaus by cold weather) would soon begin to appear in the markets. Hog feeders, viewing a record corn crop (673,000,000 bushels in Iowa), saw the opportunity to make a profit from feeding to heavier weights, so hogs might be late. But they would be along. "The dire predictions of a meat famine are without basis," said the President: "An increase in prices or the abandonment of price control on meat now would . . . add to rather than solve our difficulties...