Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rosy future. He told the super-marketeers: "Your business ... can and should double during the next generation if the leadership of American business is willing to establish as its objective for 1970 a standard of living for the American wage-earners which is at least 100% higher than the level of today...
...tons. But another reason was that Britain has been losing money on its state trading. The Government bought thousands of tons of rubber in Malaya at 23.6/ a pound, thought rubber was scarce enough so it could keep the price pegged at this level. But the high price brought out so much rubber that the price fell to 20.25?. This lesson in free enterprise economics can cost Socialist Britain millions...
...synthetic rubber business, it will make little difference. But the U.S. is expected to permit reopening of the New York market early in 1947. With rubber free on both sides of the Atlantic and with supplies plentiful, prices are likely to drop further. Some guessed that natural rubber would level off around 18? a pound in 1947 (4½? under the Government's present sales price). If so, the U.S. will have to close down much of its $700 million synthetic industry (price: 18½? a pound) or lower its price and subsidize...
Every human being is constantly subjected to bombardment by gamma rays (X rays) from natural sources such as cosmic rays. These do no visible damage, for the body is accustomed to the low normal "level of radiation." But when a gamma ray hits the nucleus of a spermatozoon or ovum (the reproductive cells which unite to form a new individual), it may damage one of the thousands of "genes" which carry hereditary characteristics from one generation to the next. This may produce a "mutation." The child may differ slightly or radically from its parents, or the difference may lie concealed...
More Redheads? When the Atomic Age really gets rolling, with atomic power plants producing much of the world's energy, the "level of radiation" will rise. People living near the plants will get more gamma rays through their gonads. So will people farther away, affected by radioactive by-products from the plants' exhausts. Possible result: more redheaded children will be born in black-haired families, and more mutations will lurk in the germ plasm to scandalize future neighbors...