Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost all state officials who have investigated the matter agree that the trucking industry is not paying its fair share of highway costs. Scientific highway tests have proved that huge trailer trucks do far more damage to U.S. roads-and hence make it necessary to build heavier, more expensive roadbeds-than the more numerous passenger cars. And the possibilities of road damage increase far faster than the increase in truck weight; e.g., tests showed that a 22,400-10. axle load caused 6.4 times as much road cracking as an 18,000-lb load. A recent New York State study...
...Donegan's comment on the defection of one of our clergy to Rome. While we do not normally burst into print with the fact that there is a two-way road between us and the Roman Church, it is well known to every clergyman that the traffic is heavier in our direction than is usually supposed...
...London, Conn., in the U.S.'s oldest (101 years) intercollegiate contest, Harvard's smooth-stroking oarsmen whipped a heavier Yale crew by 2½ lengths over the four-mile Thames River course...
Floor Plaster. A new, concrete-like material which can be used as a flooring or in place of wall plaster is being marketed by Surface Coatings, Inc. of Atlanta. Water resistant and able to withstand heavier shocks than either plaster or regular concrete, it is made with a latex and water binder which makes it stick to masonry, plaster, wood, glass or metal. As terrazo flooring, it needs to be applied only a quarter inch thick, compared to the usual 1 to 1½ in. Price: 75? per sq. ft. for terrazo flooring...
Props & Prices. Benson has to buck a phalanx of entrenched (by Civil Service) Agriculture Department bureaucrats, many of whom have come to think of themselves as the masters of U.S. agriculture. He has to bear responsibilities far heavier than the average citizen realizes. Not only does the law require him to support the price of a dozen commodities, but it also gives him discretionary power to support any farm commodity produced in the U.S. It follows that the Secretary of Agriculture is likely to be blamed by some farmers if the price of any farm commodity drops...