Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in North Africa costs the French treasury close to 800 million francs ($2,300,000) per day. Like Indo-China before, it has placed a strain on France's inflated economy. Six months ago, France was enjoying something of a boom, and producing more cars, steel and textiles than ever before in its history. Production is going up, but last week, on their return from the beaches, French workers were out on strike in 17 provincial towns. Their demand was for higher wages to match higher prices...
...Wilson gave the Westinghouse Electric Corp. and the Pennsylvania Transformer Co. the $7,000,000 contract, even though he had to strain to do so. He took advantage of a regulation that permits him to set aside all foreign bids in order to give business to any U.S. company located in a city where unemployment exceeds 6%. Pittsburgh, site of the plants that will make the Chief Joseph equipment, has a 6.1% labor surplus-just one-tenth of 1% over the line...
...with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could not evade, as Stapp puts it, "that one stubbornly unchanging item peeping forlornly from among the titanium rivets: man, M1, the same yesterday, today and forever...
...Welfare Committee sin gled out this "constant interruption of industrial effort by gambling'' as one of the main reasons for Britain's low productivity. But the 1951 Royal Commission on Betting pooh-poohed the thought: "Gambling on the [present] scale cannot be. regarded ... as a serious strain on our resources or manpower...
...dangerous? Would the Russians at the (foreign ministers) Geneva meeting in October make actual concessions to match some of the fair words said at Geneva in July? Did the warm - and slightly feverish - welcome to a group of visiting Russian farmers mean that the U.S. muscles ached with the strain of keeping the nation's guard up? Were certain Europeans, so lately worried about U.S. "intransigence." unjustified in shaking warning heads over the perils of what they considered a U.S. flirtation with the Kremlin...