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...took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...
...SHIPBUILDING ORDER will be placed by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Pittsburgh Steamship Division, which plans to spend about $100 million on twelve 20,000-to 25,000-ton Great Lakes ore carriers, several of which would outstrip the largest iron-ore ship now on the lakes-M. A. Hanna Co.'s 23,000-ton George M. Humphrey...
...satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items but also outstrip it." Some Khrushchev estimates of Russia's 1972 production: steel, 110 to 132 million tons; oil, 2.4 to 2.7 billion barrels; coal, 715 to 825 million tons; electric power, 800 to 900 billion...
SpCIAL-SECURITY payments will outstrip collections this year for first time since program was started in 1935. Heavy claims from newly eligible groups (self-employed farmers, disabled persons past 50, women past 62, etc.) will force Government to pay benefits totaling $300 million more than contributions this year, $600 million more than contributions in 1958, $1 billion more in 1959. But bulk of imbalance will be made up by fund's $600 million yearly return on investments...
...Euratom nations are expected to outstrip Britain, Russia, and ourselves in nuclear power development. The fast-moving Europeans will quickly establish a system in which our own unclear inventions and schemes can be tested. We are providing one half of the reactors and will observe, from Euratom's experiments, what techniques U.S. industry can adopt...