Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changing all that. Operating at very high frequency, they are entirely free from static. They do not send out restricted beams but can tell any plane within their range (50 miles or more, depending on altitude) in what direction it is heading in relation to the station. The pilot need not listen to wearying dots and dashes in his headset. All he has to do if he wants to fly toward the omnirange is to tune to its frequency and then watch a needle on his instrument board. When the needle is ver tical, the plane is headed toward...
...Zealand used to be full of flight-.ess birds, including the giant moa twelve feet tall. They had scrapped their flying apparatus because they didn't need it; there were few ground enemies to zoom away from. But when man (first the Maoris, then the whites) arrived in New Zealand, bringing along dogs, cats and rats, the flightless birds had a tough time. Some went the way of the dodo...
...disorder and God's design.' May I begin by asking whether we must not deal with this theme, as a whole and in all its aspects, in reverse order? It is written, we should first seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, so that all we need in relation to the world's disorder may be added unto us. Must we not take this order of topics seriously...
Stunted Growth. Slichter maintained that corporate profits should be even higher. The only way to tell whether profits are excessive, he held, is "the community's [need] for expanded output and productive capacity." That need Slichter assessed at $70 billion "at present prices." To cut corporate profits now, he implied, would stunt the country's economic growth...
...Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, committee chairman, who had hoped to find a meeting of minds on what new corporation taxes, if any, should be imposed. But though patient Senator Flanders had still to hear from more businessmen, it looked as if he-and Congress-would need all their patience to find a statesmanlike middle ground...