Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copper output was raised 36%, with Kennecott mines going on a seven-day week to meet the growing recovery demand and offset the shortage caused by strikes in U.S., Rhodesia, Canada. The price rose to a 20-month high of 31.3? on the London market...
Glowing Wings. But soaring 100 miles above the earth is only a first step. Greater peril comes when the pilot starts down through the atmosphere to land. To offset the ferocious heat generated by the air's friction, the X-15's skin is made of Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure...
...rise in productivity is vital because it helps offset rising labor costs, a big push behind inflation. So far, productivity is running ahead of 1958 wage hikes; autoworkers settled last month for more moderate terms than in recent years (4% wage rise for Ford). The cost of the new contracts has already been written into 1959 car prices. Said Frederic G. Donner, chairman of General Motors, in Manhattan last week: "I think it's fair to say that the contract, as we have signed it, would not require any further adjustment in prices...
Fort Pitt had once been Pennsylvania's top brewer, but a strike had laid it low. Its big asset to Coleman and Siegel was a $1,800,000 loss that could be offset against profits if merged with a profitable company. With $1,500,000 in bank loans, they merged two profitable overcoat companies (owned by Siegel's family) with Fort Pitt, and wound up with control of Fort Pitt...
...fragile and opulent as an Edwardian conservatory filled with orchids, and still face the time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring...