Word: onrushing
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...risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall, and look forward to the day when he can perform swanlike maneuvers in thin air, until the onrush of solid ground-or his own nervousness-makes it advisable to pop his chute. A parachutist needs no license. After all, he can only hurt himself...
...Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave that was felt for miles...
...good many unionists, and a few of their economists, attribute the persistent phenomenon of unemployment in prosperity to the onrush of automation. Automation does account for dislocations: over the past three years, industrial production in the U.S. has risen by an average of 3.8%, but automation helped increase the productivity of U.S. workers by 2.7% and thus largely removed need for new hiring. But the real trouble seems to be that the U.S. economy is no longer growing very fast. If the U.S. could increase the productivity of U.S. workers by gross national product from 2% to the Common Market...
...prime reason for the rise in profits was the onrush of cost-cutting automation. GENERAL ELECTRIC, which for the past six years has been spending 85% of its capital budget on new machines and only 15% on plants in which to put them, saw its earnings swell 21% to $242.5 million last year. (Archrival WESTINGHOUSE was also automating rapidly, but its profits slid from $79 million to $45 million, due largely to a slump in the heavy electrical apparatus market that accounts for 50% of Westinghouse's sales v. only...
...news that buzzed through Washington last week marked another awesome milestone in the onrush of the atomic age. The confirmed facts: in the drab wastes of the Negev desert, tiny, semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...