Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to raise tariffs on bicycles, the President paid tribute to the skill of foreign manufacturers, mostly British, who make lightweight bicycles that outperform heavier U.S. varieties. If U.S. bicyclemakers would follow the foreign example, said the President, U.S. industry would benefit. Nevertheless, he penalized the foreign manufacturers with a 50% tariff increase...
Gentler Triggers. Although Bhabha was the first topflight scientist to predict the coming of H-power, the prospect has intrigued his brethren everywhere (TIME, July 25). Present atomic reactors all use the fission process: splitting nuclei of the heavier atoms, e.g., uranium or plutonium, to produce a controllable reaction. But fusion, used solely in the H-bomb, involves binding the nuclei of far more plentiful, lighter atoms (deuterium, lithium, etc.) under tremendous heat to produce an explosion...
During the first four months U.S. imports were 4.3% heavier than they were last year. Again, Europe showed the biggest gain, selling $568,568,000 in the U.S., a gain of better than $100 million over year-ago volume. Imports from Canada went up $43 million, to $579,853,000, while Asia, Australia and New Zealand sold $480,510,000 worth of products here, v. $463,968,000 a year ago. The only drop was in imports from Latin America (most of the decline was caused by lower coffee prices) and Africa...
...plant in southern France last week, production was being stepped up on a trim, twin-jet plane with a graceful butterfly tail. The plane was France's Magister, a light, two-place trainer (made by Etablissements Fouga) that can hit 450 m.p.h., perform most of the maneuvers of heavier, more expensive combat cratt. The French air force has ordered 100 of the new Magisters; last week the hard-to-please NATO training committee was also recommending the plane to West Germany and other NATO nations as the standard basic trainer for fledgling jet pilots...
...turbine factory, stopping neither to look at turbines nor to talk to workers, until he came upon a room supported by concrete buttresses. He was a real expert on concrete, he informed his guides. At home he had been fighting engineers who wanted to use steel, which was heavier and more expensive. ''Of course, you people use concrete out of necessity,'' he added. Signing guest books, Khrushchev grabbed the pen first, then turned to Bulganin. saying: "Here, Nikolai Alexandrovich, sign your name...