Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True, Washington economists still worried about inflation. Gloomily they counted up the losses through strikes of more than 98.6 million man-days of work and a minimum $3.1 billion goods. They thought how badly that would affect the breathless race between production and demand. Industry's pipelines were sucked out. The 45-day coal strike was a blow at production's source from which it would take industry many months to recover. The smooth and efficient exchanges of goods and services had all but vanished...
...mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race is famed as a testing ground for new auto gadgets. But this race, the first since 1941, was mostly a contest between patched-up prewar jobs. Only nine of the 33 starters finished. The largest crowd ever to watch a U.S. sport event (175,000 people) saw shy George Robson, 36, in his third try at Indianapolis, cross the line first. He averaged 114 m.p.h. in his light blue, alcohol-burning Thorne Special. His reward: about $48,000 in prizes and a trip around the world...
...Wolfers, Percy Corbett, William Fox), all members of the Yale Institute of International Studies, have produced the best overall job yet on the atom's actual political implications. They make it more real by frankly presupposing that the only two powers likely to engage in an atomic-armament race are the U.S. and Russia...
Threat of Retaliation. Whether or not a world atomic agreement is reached, the authors round the globe. While some sciencetists think that an atomic-arms race is the most dreadful thing that could happen, The Absolute Weapon's text argues that it would be still more dreadful for only one nation to have bombs-for only then could they be used with impunity. "In the atomic age the threat of retaliation is probably the strongest single means of determent...
...week later against Tech, in their last tests before the Yale race, the three crews rendered a reasonably exact facsimile of the previous Saturday's Annapolis doings...