Word: lesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sahara, at the current rate of more than $200 million a year, foreign oilmen at first looked on with skepticism. They questioned French estimates of reserves; they observed that the Sahara's sweet crude (more than 40 degree gravity) yields far more gasoline than Kuwait crude-but less than half as much heavy fuel oil. France most needs heavy fuel oil for its industry, said Petroleum Week, warning of the danger that "France would soon have gasoline running out its ears...
Tepee has nothing to do with Indians, merely stands for the initials of "Thaler's Project." The physicist more or less backed into long-range detection through his involvement in nuclear testing: now director of the field projects branch of the Office of Naval Research and chairman of the Navy's special weapons effects planning group, he has watched almost every U.S. nuclear test explosion in the past ten years...
...educational needs. This spring, of dozens of appropriations urged by the committee, the only one passed by the frugal state legislature was a $1,300,000 bill to set up Tijerina-style schools throughout Texas. Reason: hundreds of five-year-olds have now had the Tijerina treatment, and less than 5% have flunked the first grade...
...public is intrigued and bewildered, the official Moscow press is neither. Critical consensus: "Who needs it?" Apparently the Russians are even less accustomed than Americans are to seeing pictures on their own merits. But what the spectators chiefly wanted was explanation. Jack Levine's brilliantly painted Welcome Home, depicting a banquet for a dissolute-looking general (which President Eisenhower objected to as "a lampoon"), left the crowd cold until a label was attached explaining it as "anti-war." Since then, it has been a favorite. Likewise, Peter Blume's surrealistic The Eternal City, in which a bust...
...Japanese emphasis on precision and heavy industrial products? Much of it stems from pressure by U.S. producers, who have forced Japan to clamp quotas on its lighter, less complex exports, e.g., textiles, tuna, stainless steel flatware, umbrella frames. The insular Japanese live or die by trade. Particularly must they export to the U.S.; last year their imports from the U.S. ran 55% ahead of their exports. Thus they have decided that if the U.S. tightens one market, the way to compete is simply to turn to another...