Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, the House of Representatives had approved a larger amount. In negotiating between the two Houses, the conferees split the difference, resulting in an authorization of $3,054,568,000. From Russell Long's point of view, this was still too big a piece of change, but Congress would have another crack at it when the appropriation is finally voted...
...trained bacteria. Some of them will turn petroleum or natural gas into valuable organic compounds too complicated to be produced by man's simple chemical processes. Others will graze on hydrocarbons like microscopic cattle. Their harvested bodies, fat and nutritious, will serve as food for man and his larger cattle...
Cornell's tunnel is an experimental model. A much larger one copied from it will be built at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma, Tenn. Details of construction are secret, but the objective is not: to learn to make missiles behave like meteors, yet survive unmelted to complete their missions...
COLOR-TV picture is brightening. R.C.A. will soon bring out a 21-in. color tube with a picture area 22% larger than C.B.S.' 19-in. tube (TIME, July 19), at the same price...
...Raymond Chandler, he has learned his lessons well, even to the similes: "His face was like a worn saddle ridden by circumstance.'' He has the same intelligent regard for settings: "It was a good residential suburb, where people turned their backs on small beginnings and looked to larger futures." With Dashiell Hammett no longer producing and Raymond Chandler showing signs of weariness, Macdonald is just the man for fans who like those original brands...