Word: lag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stassen argument assumes that the U.S. knows better than the Russians what the Russians really need. Tractors are taken off the embargo list on the ground that Russia produces a lot of them. But last week Moscow's Pravda was bitterly complaining that lagging Russian tractor production was grievously hurting the program of farm expansion. Every tractor shipped to Russia will help make up this lag and could also release Russian capacity for military tank construction...
...winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds of 1,000 m.p.h. or better. Streamered the Daily Mail: FASTEST YET-AND BRITISH. But some, remembering how few of Britain's shiny prototypes ever see squadron service, were less...
...flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes, and to make her old family mansion a shrine for longhaired folks. Ever since her Gold Coast neighbors began objecting to the club's intrusion on their quiet life, Ellen Stevenson has been objecting to their cultural lag. By last week, she was on the defensive. Said she: "I now have two lawyers and a business manager helping me keep out of trouble...
CHRYSLER, whose 1954 models lag in styling, is busily pushing its lead in horsepower. To show off its new proving ground, Chrysler tooled a stock 235 h.p. New Yorker sedan around the track on a 24-hour endurance run, clicked off 2,836 miles to break its own official A.A.A. closed-track, stock-car record of 2,157 miles...
...GOVERNMENT DRIVE for economy is reaching into the dustiest nooks and crannies. Latest target is the daily Treasury balance statement, which since 1916 has been issued with a two-day lag, but will now be three days late, thus allowing the Treasury Department to lay off three employees in its Bureau of Accounts. Saving: $10,000 a year...