Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sobering Statistics. Addressing an overflow crowd in the Laurence Frost Amphitheater, Hoover wore a soft collar instead of his once-familiar high, stiff one, but there was nothing soft-collared about his message. "We're on the last mile to collectivism," he declared. "Dynamic progress is not made with dynamite. And that dynamite today is the geometrical increase in the spending of our governments...
...Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
Pleasure Boats & Violins. Potentially, says Moulton, the natural resources and the productive capacity of the U.S. could, in the year 2049, support a population of 300 million at a standard of living eight times as high as today's. In this bright future, each American would spend eight times as much as he does today for food, 16 times for housing, 20 times for clothing, and 33 times for recreation and travel...
Potential Paradise. The basic materials for such expansion seem adequate in the U.S. for centuries to come. U.S. coal seams will last for "thousands of years." Known high-and medium-grade iron ore deposits in the U.S. will last 40 years, lower-grade ore some 600 years. Moulton also expects new deposits to be discovered. New techniques will further stretch existing supplies. Example: gas turbines are so cheap and efficient that one day a turbine the size of a dial telephone may power the American automobile...
Scornful of high-priced chefs ("they'll get you over a barrel for money and when they leave they take their recipes with them"), Dobbs turns out cooking instructions which are so detailed that almost anyone, including himself, can make his dishes...