Word: tends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John announced a measure antipodal to the U. S. undistributed profits tax. The Chancellor said that for the duration of the war British firms will be restrained from paying dividends of more than 4% (or the maximum figure they have paid during the past three years). This "will tend to reduce the spending power in the hands of share holders but it will tend to increase the reserves of companies from undistributed profits." Taking advantage of the period of grace before the law enacting new revenue measures becomes effective, British Ford Motor Co. declared a 7½% dividend, British Pressed...
...Airplane engine carburetors have been vastly improved since the old cork-float type, but they still tend to get clogged with ice in a certain temperature-humidity range. This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks. But if anything goes wrong with the hot-air valve, the engine conks just the same. To get rid of carburetors, fuel-injection systems have been devised to shoot into the cylinders tiny jets of liquid gasoline...
...proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from...
...Moskowitz was getting tired of it. He tended his brother's filling station on Route 25, Elizabeth, N. J., and all he asked was to be let alone to tend it. But twice bandits had robbed the station. The nervous strain of being held up, then questioned by police and insurance companies, got to be too much for Max. One night last week, when a car stopped outside, two youths walked in and snarled: "This is a stick-up," Max simply sat down on a chair...
Because of interference from the sun's own magnetic field, sunspots spray out their particle beams unevenly. The earth may therefore suffer severely from relatively small sunspots if it happens to be in a dense region of the particle beam. Moreover, as the spot cycle wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time...