Word: lineing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators were assembled in special session. Governor Ingram Stainback wanted a law which would end the paralyzing strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (TIME, July 4). Nobody was in the mood for comedy. Up before the legislature were 19 different proposals for emergency action. One soon passed in the house, but ran into delay in the senate. It would authorize the territory to set up its own stevedoring company, rent docks and equipment from the struck companies and operate them until the strike was settled...
...shoulder toward Washington. Colorado's Ed Johnson, chairman of the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, stormed that the radio plans of "certain large distillers" were "vicious" and "reckless," and called the wavering radiomen "stupid." The Federal Communications Commission, which has indirect power to keep radio in line, reacted more mildly. FCC Chairman Wayne Coy was in Europe, and Commissioner-in-Charge Paul A. Walker would admit only that he had received some complaints against giveaway shows and other radio practices which he declined to specify. Said Walker soothingly: "The matter is under consideration, but I would hesitate...
Though liquor sales were already down about 20% from last year, other distillers tried to hold their price line, insisting that taxes, the biggest item (over 50%) in the cost of liquor, would have to come down before prices could yield much more...
Normally, the atoms point every which way; but when the crystals are placed in a strong magnetic field, they line up in one direction. The lining-up process warms the crystals slightly. Then the magnetic field is removed. The atom-magnets point at random again, and the crystals get colder than they were at the start. This method works fine down to about two-thousandths of one degree above absolute zero...
...this point the scientists use the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. When certain materials (e.g., lithium fluoride) are placed in a strong magnetic field, the nuclei of their atoms also line up. When the magnetism is removed, the lithium fluoride gets colder. This method promises to yield a temperature only one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero...