Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directed by a Major General Malzev. Since mining began in August 1946, millions of tons of pitchblende have been extracted by Wismut A.G. and sent to Russia. It is poor in uranium content. In the last six months production has been whipped up to a "frantic" pace. Says the British report: "It can only be concluded that the Russians are in urgent need of uranium...
...might yet be pushed out of Korea. But the buildup of American power has been achieved at a pace and on a scale that would never before have been possible so early in a war so far from home...
...Song to the lead before the halfway mark, stayed there, and won by a full-sized length from Star's Pride. The second heat, an hour later, started out like the first. Lusty Song had the lead at the quarter-mile mark, held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made a bid from two lengths back, drew almost even. Miller took to the whip, and Lusty Song won by a scant neck...
...first hour, Florence swam fast -60 strokes a minute-to get away from the inshore current. Then she settled down to an eight-kick, 32-beat pace, broken only by pauses for lumps of sugar four times an hour. At 11:30 a.m., her father, following in a trawler, chalked a cheerful message on a blackboard: "Only three more miles...
With a shortage of cars already pinching some sections of the U.S., Iron Age has predicted that the U.S. faces "a serious car shortage, potentially the worst in history." Chief reason: the supply of freight cars has not kept pace with the nation's growth. Though the gross national product has more than doubled in ten years, the number of freight cars in service has actually dwindled to 1,605,609 from 1,620,655 at the time of Pearl Harbor...