Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stressing that the European Recovery Program must be approached in a "positive spirit," the six-point manifesto goes on to cite the tenets of "reconstruction not relief," "no political conditions," "use of U.N. facilities," "non-partisan support," and "a two-way venture with the Continent...
Part of the minimum annual output of 225,000 tons will be used to maintain a Government stockpile of 650,000 tons, one year's supply for the U.S. Rubber fabricators will be required to use the rest, i.e., mix a certain percentage with natural 'rubber, as at present...
What did private industry think about the bill? In general, rubber men did not object too much. At current production and prices, the industry would easily use up the minimum tonnage. Opinions may change if the price of natural rubber, now around 22? a pound, falls below the price of "American-made...
...plus natural gas) than from coal. Per capita consumption was 608 gallons in 1947 v. 367 in 1938. In 1948, demand is estimated at over 6,000,000 barrels a day, some 700,000 barrels more than supply. Some of the factors in the astonishing rise in U.S. use...
...Abacus. Tall, California-born Ralph C. Coxhead, the company's tinkering board chairman, had never set out to start a lower-case revolution. A salesman of office machines, he once helped to get Hawaiian sugar growers to use mechanical calculators in place of the Chinese abacus. He did even better in New York, where, in partnership with his brother, Stuart (now president of the company), he set up Coxhead Corp. as an agency for German Mercedes calculators...