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...fairness, of justice." After the 16th Amendment went into effect in 1913, the top rate was set at 7%. By 1932 it had reached 25%. Then in 1932, beset by the fears and rancors of the Great Depression, the Congress upped the maximum to 63% in one wild thrust...
Larkin has a poet's reverence for the small detail that shapes a scene or character. Thrust into a dentist's chair, a terrified girl imagines that the drill hovering above her has the "shape of a great hooded bird." And his small scope is deceptive. His characters are afraid of life only because they are in need of love. Their peevishness, spitefulness and British reserve all mask an inner anguish, conceal layers of loneliness that Larkin peels off with precision...
When the rocket is launched, its engine and the auxiliary fuel will be ignited at the same instant. The trapped combustion gases will produce a pressure of 500 lbs. per sq. in. that will drive the rocket upward with 3,600,000 lbs. of thrust and about 35 Gs of acceleration. It should reach the end of the tube in 1,205 sec. Air pressure will open the doors to let it pass, and it will pop out with the respectable speed of 1,000 m.p.h. Only 2,500 lbs. of its own fuel will have burned, and it will...
...began when she stole her brother's World War I cavalry saber. "I took his sword and humbled it," she muses, "scraped muck from mouldings, rust from behind benches, dug holes for my plants. It was too awkward for peeling potatoes." Her rebellion comes when she tries to thrust herself into the freight cars full of Jews bound for Auschwitz-to call them to the attention of fellow townsfolk, who have chosen to ignore what is going on. Böll's point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined to an asylum, Faehmel...
...Halliburton started out cementing oil wells, eventually branched into production of everything from transformer equipment to pneumatic handling gear for bulk materials. With 9,000 employees in 27 countries, Halliburton last year earned $16,780,000 on sales of $193,500,000. Last week, in a move calculated to thrust his company into the top echelon of U.S. corporations, Halliburton's President Loren B. Meaders (pronounced Medders), 55, announced that he was negotiating to buy Houston's Brown & Root...