Word: siphon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Play, No Pay. Before the major leagues started to siphon off their stars, the Negro circuits had enough good players to fill a Negro-American and National League. From May to October the "bus" leagues zigzagged across the U.S. Their buses were rolling dormitories: seats, aisles and luggage racks did double duty as beds. Often there was no time for a meal stop, and sometimes no restaurant would serve a colored team. Then the players would carve up a big bologna and make sandwiches as they rolled along. Eating money, when Campy started...
Nobody is more concerned about water than U.S. industry, which already uses about 80 billion gallons daily, will siphon off 200 billion gallons daily (exclusive of water power) by 1975. Whatever the product, the choice of any plant site often depends on how much fresh water is available. After World War II, for example, General Motors wanted to take over a Lima (Ohio) plant that it had operated for the Government, but backed out because it could not get a guarantee of future water supplies. Ford Motor Co. built a huge new plant at Walton Hills, outside Cleveland, but only...
Before any such expansion of Adams, though, extensive renovations must be made. The Adams library is already overcrowded, but a subsidiary study room in the unused rooms on Claverly's first floor would siphon off the extra students. The Adams dining hall is also filled now, but with alterations, it could accommodate the added diners. Without these changers, dumping Claverly on Adams would make a merely uncomfortable situation into an impossible...
...managers finally decided to start the series with what had been scheduled as the second step: the drop of a "baby" atom bomb (equivalent to 5,000 to 15,000 tons of TNT) from an airplane. Since the bomb would explode in midair, it would be less likely to siphon up particles from the ground and therefore would produce a less dangerous fallout. The clouds from nuclear explosions that do not suck up particles from the earth travel long distances (sometimes around the world) and descend in such minute particles that they are seldom dangerous...
...last spring, Arthur Dean, President Eisenhower's special envoy to South Korea, sat in Syngman Rhee's presidential mansion, discussing Korea's galloping inflation. Dean thought the solution was to let the hwan find its own level (i.e., free-market dollar value), then siphon away the excess hwan currency that was drowning the country. Said Syngman Rhee: "Nonsense. The best way to fight inflation is to say that the hwan is worth 180 to the dollar and then keep it there." At that time the hwan was worth less than that and fast losing ground...