Word: upthrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...
Actually earth heat itself is still the most important unknown of geophysics. The only known source of energy which is potent enough to contort the earth's surface with upthrust mountains, heat must be studied by the geophysicist in order to gauge rocks' conductivity...
...sprawls there proudly, minding its enormous business. It has little of orthodox beauty. What beauty there is has to be sought out, along the shores of Lake St. Clair, behind the trees of the luxurious suburbs. It has another kind of beauty, which is to be found in the upthrust stacks and belching blast furnaces of the Ford plant, in the great assembly lines of glittering vehicles and machinery...