Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength of the strike, Berwick stock has climbed from 17? to 50? a share. Burke owns 300,000 shares. He will get a lump sum "bonus" (amount still undetermined) from his employers, plus 15% of the stock issue in a new Rush Lake-Berwick firm to be called Joe Burke Gold Mines. Mining men last week guessed that he could get half a million dollars for his holdings, if he wanted to sell. Said Joe Burke: "Pot of gold...
Under a 20-year agreement with China's National Resources Commission, Westinghouse International will design buildings, set up machinery and production processes, and train personnel for a $35 million electrical manufacturing plant in China. In return, Westinghouse will get lump-sum payments for its know-how and brain power during the first ten years, royalties on the products during the second ten years...
...controlling fission, the nuclear physicists' big problem was to calculate the probability that a given atom would capture a neutron traveling at a given speed. They found that in a certain type of pile the critical size at which a lump of enriched uranium begins to cook in a nonexplosive chain reaction is 1.5 kilograms (about 3⅓ Ibs.). Theoretically, a pile might heat up to the temperature of the sun (over 6,000°), but no known container can withstand more than 1,500°. The physicists discovered that the simplest way to throttle down a pile...
...Passed and sent to the Senate a revision of servicemen's insurance regulations which would permit lump-sum payments to beneficiaries...
...plan would 1) elevate the Federal Security Agency to Cabinet status; 2) lump all Government housing under one agency; 3) abolish the office of U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines (July 4 is Philippine independence day); 4) scrap the NLRB function of conducting strike ballots; 5) transfer the jobs-for-vetefans function from Selective Service to the U.S. Employment Service; 6) transfer the Office of Contract Settlement to OWMR...