Word: weighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what Ike accomplished in throwing his weight into the labor-bill battle may be a lot tougher to achieve in the farm fight. For one thing, the labor bill that Ike backed seemed to offer effective remedies for the problem of labor racketeering. There is reason to doubt that Ezra Benson is offering an effective solution to the surplus-wheat problem, which follows the general line of the corn program he got written into law last year. Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned...
...back all "marginal" defense work in an all-out effort to pare down the 1961 budget. It put an end to present hopes for boron-powered planes that would get 40% more energy out of a pound of fuel, thus increase their range (or speed) without adding weight. The Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion, and the boron fuel to power them would have been about 100 times more expensive than conventional, petroleum-product fuel...
...comes whooping and whipping out of the starting gate, a pale-faced kid who fights for the lead right at the start so that no challenger will spoil his view of the pot of gold waiting at the finish line. His body high and forward, weight over the horse's withers, boots in two of the shortest stirrups in racing, he is a jockey in a hurry. He is strong enough to ride all afternoon, and he applies the measure of cold cash, not sentiment, to his work. Shrugs Jockey Bob Ussery (rhymes with fussery): "If I ride...
...Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Périchole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight...
...grounded the aircraft nut-and-bolt business, Engineer Reiner invented the Lady Ellen Klip-pie, an improved woman's hairclip that has captured 90% of the market. Later, he invented the Kaylock nut, a self-locking aircraft nut so light that it reduced the B-52's weight by 600 Ibs., is now used by 90% of U.S. aircraft makers...