Word: increment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced," concludes Serrano, "that ixbut increases milk flow. By analysis, I know that this increment is actually milk and not water, as I originally suspected. We must still isolate the agent that causes the increase [a project which Merck & Co. will work on] and learn how it works." Serrano could rule out the milk-producing hormone prolactin: it did not enable his wife to nurse her four babies. But ixbut...
...House committee bill added no men to the authorized Army strength the Administration had asked for. The increment of manpower was for the Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Capitol, the Senate Armed Services Committee listened sympathetically as Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, backed by General Carl Spaatz, said once again that anything less than 70 groups would be inadequate. The Senators indicated that they would make their own decision this week, and that it would be for 70 groups...
...acquire that increment of manpower, Secretary Forrestal would clamp selective service on the 3,600,000 young men aged 19 to 25. To provide the added strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
Recent developments, Professor Black added, make any precipitous rise in public spending particularly dangerous now. Pointing to numerous wage increases, particularly in the basic industry of coal, Professor Black saw a spending increment made possible by terminal leave cash as an ominous inflation threat...
Wearing a seersucker jacket, explains Dolan, first gave him a social conscience. When OPA lifted cotton controls last November, his favorite model skyrocketed from $17.50 to $22.50. He wrote to his congressman, as soon as his furnishers mailed him a bill for the increment...