Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library contained but 35,000 volumes, no match for the great state collections of France and Britain. As U.S. publishing expanded after the Civil War, so did the library's literary holdings, but not until 1886 did Congress provide any substantial amount of funds to build the vast-domed, granite library building (completed in 1899) east of the Capitol...
...world. U.S. industry pays him the world's highest wage scales, then shells out another $25 billion a year (or about $1 for every $5 paid in payrolls) for such fringe benefits as pensions, paid vacations and welfare funds. But the real frosting on the cake is a vast assortment of "extras," and ranging all the way from equipment for lunch-hour ball games to employee country clubs and yacht clubs with company-owned fleets of yachts...
Deep within Peking's Forbidden City, beneath lacquered ceilings, Mao Tse-tung last week received the onetime Prime Minister of Great Britain, Clement Attlee, and the Labor Party delegation to Red China. It was the first significant audience Mao had granted Westerners since he conquered vast China...
Despite a high initial cost of some $8,000,000, the portable reactor looks like an eventual money-saver to the Pentagon. Remote U.S. bases, especially those in the Arctic, burn up vast amounts of oil for heat and diesel-generated electricity at a cost that sometimes reaches $42 a barrel. Using the reactor and its enriched uranium fuel, the Pentagon could free ships and planes for other duties; 1 Ib. of easily transported uranium contains as much energy as 6,350 barrels of fuel oil. AEC has another outlook on the project. Said one AEC physicist: "We are buying...
...Whack. The old economic saw is out of whack in 1954 for several reasons. The first is that steel, while still vital, has lost some of its relative importance on the U.S. industrial scene. In the past few years, vast new industries have grown up to lessen steel's weight. Such war babies as plastics and light metals are booming in peacetime-and cutting into steel's old markets: in July aluminum production rose to 252 million Ibs., a new record. Electronics is now a $5 billion annual business; TV sales hit an alltime high...