Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine tool industry-which makes the machines with which other industries make goods-is no monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more...
...plans for holding the machine tool industry's annual show (scheduled for Oct. 4-13 at Cleveland) were abandoned. Reason: too much business. Cleveland's Monarch Machine Tool Co. sold seven of 14 machines it had planned to exhibit at the show. The company has orders enough to keep running 20 hours a day for four months. National Acme Co. in Cleveland, sold eight of its machines built for the show, was running 24 hours a day (60% of its backlog is for export). A manufacturer of presses sold 32 of them (at $400 to $3,000 apiece...
...protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show where the nitrogen goes. Carbon is a vital ingredient of all living substance, and by using heavy carbon atoms as tracers Dr. Urey expects physiologists to find out much more about carbon metabolism than is now known...
...more profitable, than digging for gold. If urged on by the love of digging, one digs deeper than if searching for some particular nugget. Practicality is inevitably shortsighted, and is self-handicapped by the fact that it is looking so hard for some single objective that it may miss much that nature presents...
Comfortably brought up in Alton, Ill., in a period when a girl was "much more than a girl," young Hapgood was athletic, introspective, drawn to people "who are not worth while." At Harvard he read Shelley and Wordsworth, was complimented by Santayana for a deeply philosophical remark: "All girls are beautiful." Post-graduate study in Europe included art museums, mistresses, drinking, sightseeing, conversation, desultory reading. Said young Novelist Robert Herrick one day: "Hutch, you don't do a damned thing, do you?" Like many another obtuse observer, says Hapgood, Herrick was apparently correct. But "if I wasn...