Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bringing "general decisive battle." SHO1 called for a pincers movement against the U.S. landing forces in Leyte Gulf. The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf. Two smaller forces, operating independently under Vice Admirals Shoï Nishimura and Kiyohide Shima, were to come through Surigao Strait, move north and close the pincers with Kurita. Meanwhile, a fleet under canny old Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa, with carriers for bait, was charged with decoy duty to "advance into Philippine Sea east...
Light in the Darkness. Nurserymen have known since 1920 that certain plants could be made to bloom earlier than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...
...coast near Cutler, Me., the Navy is building a $63 million transmitter complex that, by any measure, will rank as the world's biggest. Rising 980 ft., its two main antenna masts are almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). With their flanking arrays of twelve smaller masts, each complex occupies the ground space of eleven Pentagons. Operating at 2,000,000 watts, the station will be 40 times more powerful than the biggest commercial stations and three times more powerful than the mightiest military transmitters known to exist in the U.S. or the Soviet Union...
...INSURANCE RATES will be cut 10% on compact cars by Allstate Insurance Co. because firm says small cars will cause less damage in accidents, have smaller glass area, and are cheaper to repair than big cars...
...Films. Most Wall Streeters agree that the SEC is understaffed. It has a staff of only 1,000 and a budget of $8,100,000, well down from the peak staff of 1,683 in 1941, when its job was much smaller. But Congress has repeatedly ignored SEC requests for a bigger staff...