Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hole in the ocean's bottom at a rate of 1,500 barrels an hour. For days, capping efforts had been stymied by high seas, and escaping oil had continued to spread out from the long-legged rig at the rate of three miles per hour, cutting a devastating swath through the water...
Feinberg has long felt frustrated by Einstein's 1905 conclusion that velocities greater than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) are absolutely im possible. Such speeds must be approached before man will ever be able to travel to distant stars, and Feinberg says that he does not "like the thought of being permanently confined by lim ited velocities to a small region around our solar system...
Metallic Ring. When the blockade began, scant food reserves were swiftly consumed. Luftwaffe raids on warehouses sent tons of sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages...
...employees group yesterday obtained authorization cards from Charles Warren, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 711 of the Retail Clerks International. Under the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, 30 per cent of Phillips' employees must request collective representation in order to hold a union election. If 50 per cent then vote for a union in the election, Phillips is legally bound to bargain with that union...
...employees group claims that the Retail Clerks Union will organize the store only if 75 per cent of the workers sign pledge cards of the union, 25 per cent more than technically required. But this is not, according to other union sources, an unusual practice. The employees committee will circulate the cards tomorrow...