Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the uranium atom was the most massive in the standard table of 92 elements, there was no theoretical reason why heavier elements should not exist...
...Reason: Although some hand-propelling method was ordered installed on all 60-passenger U. S. lifeboats except motor boats after the yeoman rescue work performed by the Monarch of Bermuda at the Morro Castle disaster in 1934, the Fleming boats until recently had not been approved because they have aluminum alloy non-sinkable bulkheads instead of steel. This year they were approved for installation on three liners being built for the Government-owned Panama Line...
...Reason for brisk interest in the motor truck show was the refinement of Diesel power (hitherto a luxury of heavy duty trucking), for 1½ to 3-ton trucks. Main advantages of Diesel power are that it needs no carburetion, no spark plugs, no electric ignition system (sources of 90% of gasoline motor troubles), gets more power and mileage out of low-grade cheap fuel oil than gasoline motors get out of premium gasoline...
Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...
...comic strips "Popeye the Sailor" and "Mickey Mouse" (Italian name: "Topolino"); in Italy. Agency: the Ministry of Popular Culture. Reason: they do not contribute to "exaltation of the imperial, Fascist and Mussolinian tone in which we live." Italian editors, spurred by the new Fascist drive for "racism," have also been inking over the hair of blond U. S. heroes like Flash Gordon and Joe Palooka...