Word: soares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this with a grain of political salt. In prewar years, roughly 20% of Iranian' revenue came from royalties and taxes on oil pumped from the south Iran fields of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. If new fields are opened up, Iran's national income will soar...
With more than 35,000 tickets already issued by the Harvard Athletic Association, the attendance is expected to soar over the mark of 42,000 set in last years contest, which saw the two inter-city rivals battle evenly through four quarters, the game ending in a 6 to 6 deadlock...
...m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...
Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
Franklin Roosevelt was asking for over twice as much as the U.S. national income in 1933. World War II's cumulative cost to the U.S. by 1945 would be $397 billion -a third of a trillion. The public debt would soar to $258 billion-ten times the highest debt of the 1920s. The interest alone would be $5 billion a year-bigger than any pre-New Deal peacetime budget. The President, in his twelve years as Chief Executive, was spending three times as much as all 30 of his predecessors put together...