Word: retarders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...
...floor about the size of the federal budget, and we have been seeking ways to cut the cost of Government. By terminating or curtailing Government business-type activities that rightfully belong to private enterprise, we can reduce Government costs. And yet it is proposed by this section to retard and obstruct such a program...
...known that he is no longer taking weekly an anticoagulant drug, part of the follow-up therapy of his Sept. 24, 1955 heart attack. Prescribed to retard bloodclotting, the drug had been given three times a week at first, was cut down slowly until a month ago, when Patient Eisenhower was found to need no further regular medication...
Steamed-Up Antics. The Metropole's regular musicians like their job, partly because the work is steady and requires no traveling, partly because the Dixieland market has leveled off. The pay? "Ah," growls Red Allen happily, "the Metropole don't retard on the loot." Nor do the boys retard on the noise. Whatever the number, the decibel is mightier than the dolce. Dixieland's adolescent nights, with their soulful solos, apparently are lost in the dim past, now to be replaced mostly by steamed-up, middle-aged antics. When the two bands get together...
...rain which fell during the first part of the race did little to retard the runners. Chrisman said it made his uniform slightly uncomfortable, but Pates and Anderson felt it did them a service by cooling them down. "It rained hard enough to get wet, but not hard enough to get a drink." Childs complained after ward...