Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wages than the scientists). They sailed from Honolulu last week aboard the U.S.S. Bowditch, to catalogue plant and animal life on & near the atoll. After the explosions, they would make another expedition, to get a before-&-after picture. Years later, they would return to ravished Bikini, to chart the slow, painful process of repopulation...
...refunds to ship operators to reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling very many of these will not be easy...
Metro, too, is prepared to shoot the works on its more ominously titled The Beginning or the End. Cast for the leads: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy. Producer: heavy, slow-talking Sam Marx,* who, in Hollywood's inscrutable ways, qualified for his present assignment by patiently directing a collie dog through Lassie Come Home and Son of Lassie...
Another ruling will speed subsistence payments to out-of-state veterans by removing the slow process of transfer of their papers to Boston as a requisite for these payments...
Harvard University has long had a calculator which would do almost any mathematical job. But it was slow; its inner works were like those of an ordinary adding machine. M.I.T. had a faster gadget, but it, too, was largely mechanical. What was needed, said Mauchly and Eckert, was a calculator with no moving parts except the fast-flying electrons inside vacuum tubes. With Army help and money, they built one, in 30 months...