Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even Victories were no longer fast enough, said Admiral Cochrane, as he steamed up with the beginnings of a big-scale shipbuilding program last week. He wants Congress to appropriate $250 million for 50 newly designed cargo vessels which will steam much faster than 18 knots, be the speediest cargo ships ever built...
...Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...
...present Holy Cross steam is quite different from the ones which have proceeded from Month St. James in the recent past. Crusader linemen used to be large immobile mon; the current vintage is lighter (the program fixes the average weight of the line at 196) and as a result is faster and able to charge harder...
...Faces. The most obvious cause of the price jumps was a new tax law, more than 100 pages long, handed to Congress late one afternoon with a request that House and Senate rush it right through. Without discussion or debate, the Peronista steam roller obliged. The law increased tax rates on personal incomes, excess profits, capital gains, inheritances, gifts and sales, and slapped on stiff hikes in excise and customs duties. At the same time, the government removed price controls from many commodities...
...order last month to block his purchase of 22 banks from Transamerica Corp. (TiME, July 10), Giannini ignored the order. The FRB-and Giannini, too-were well aware that the purchase would cut Transamerica's holdings in California to only four banks, and thus take much of the steam out of the FRB's antitrust suit against Transamerica...