Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago the budget proposed private financing of new power plants for TVA; the 1957 budget asks for funds to get going on some new Government-built steam plants pending congressional approval of a revenue bond program. The fixed Government charges roll on relentlessly: interest on the Government debt is budgeted at $7 billion, and total veterans' benefits at $4.9 billion, up $86 million. By the end of the century, the President noted, veterans' compensation and pension payments may be twice the present $3 billion unless some changes are made in the system...
...year's end, with U.S. personal debts at $800 for every man, woman and child in the nation, many businessmen shook their heads over credit's spectacular rise. Warned Salt Lake City Banker Walter E. Cosgriff: "Almost everyone is aware that if you increase the amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept...
...closeness of the game was matched only by the enthusiasm of the M.I.T. students. The wooden stands were completely full before the start of play and over 200 late-comers were forced to stand or sit on the wrestling mats and steam pipes that surrounded the court...
Equipped with Rocky Mountain-climbing Hall-Scott motors, the engine can travel up to 85 miles per hour, "and you can bet that she'll really steam down that road with all cylinders popping," Lynch forecast. The engine is the third of only three of its kind ever made. Cambridge owns two of the machines, while Memphis has the only other...
Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, revealed yesterday that the steam tunnels will carry 50 percent more steam in order to "pick up the overload on the present pipes and prepare for new construction...