Word: spaced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tenant. What lent some authority to the story was the fact that the army had already installed its watchdog in the Casa Rosada. Just down the hall from Perón's office, in the space recently vacated by the fallen Economic Czar Miguel Miranda, sat trim, cheerful Colonel Enrique P. González. A bitter and outspoken foe of Evita, he had been presidential secretary in the regime of Pedro Ramirez, who was overthrown by Perón in 1944 for planning to break relations with the Axis. González bore the brand-new title of Immigration...
...taken a fourth of the bumper wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market. Cash corn had been driven as much as 40? below the support price, and wheat down to 20? below its support level...
...advantage of the pilot bed is that a pilot lying down does not have as much frontal area as a pilot sitting up. This was not very important with old-fashioned propeller planes. There was plenty of space for a seated pilot behind a reciprocating engine. But jet engines are slimmer and designers have learned to fold tanks and guns into nose and wings. To take full advantage of lower frontal areas, pilots may have to stretch out in the direction of the airstream...
Measured in electrical engineering terms, the neurons are only one-thousandth as fast as vacuum tube relays, but they require much less space and much less power. Professor McCulloch estimated that if a calculating machine had only 10 million vacuum tubes (the brain has about 10 billion neurons), it would take the power of Niagara Falls to operate it and the Niagara River to keep it from overheating. The brain is cooled by a comparatively small river of blood. When awake and in full operation, it raises the temperature of a pint of circulating blood one-half degree a minute...
Farmers and traders, who had thought that grain prices had hit bottom because they were at Government-support levels, were fooled; the artificial props could not support the weight of the glut. For various reasons, including lack of storage space, farmers had been forced to sell below support levels. Cash corn was down 36? below the support level; September wheat, 19?. Said one trader: "It looks as if the Government may have bitten off more than it can chew...