Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aftosa, First of All. Last summer Mexicans were rash enough to import 320 tickproof Brazilian zebu bulls. The bulls brought the dread aftosa, or foot-&-mouth disease. By last week an epidemic had spread through ten states, and excited patrons were refusing perfectly good steak in Mexico City restaurants. Worst of all, the U.S., soundly fearing infection of its own herds, had banned the import of Mexican cattle. This was a deep hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through...
Richard is convinced that the worst thing that ever happened to him was to break the scoring record in his third season in the big time. The following year, worrying about keeping it up made him flub instead. This year, not worrying, he may set a new record. Says he coolly: "It is my own record I'd break. What difference does it make...
...week since mid-1941. The steel industry, roaring along at 94.1% of capacity, was turning out far more steel than in any peacetime year. Many a prosperous company upped its-dividend, e.g., Du Pont from $1.25 to $2 and International Harvester from 65? to $1. Despite the worst freight-car shortage in 20 years, Barren's latest Weekly Production Index held at 117, within one point of the postwar peak...
Floundering airlines meant more than just T.W.A. Of the big lines, T.W.A. was in the worst shape. But some smaller lines were also in danger of crashing. And all the airlines, hit by a falling-off of traffic due to crashes and abnormally bad winter weather, had had one of the worst Januarys in their history They had been doing none too well before that. In the first eleven months of 1946, the U.S. airlines had shown an estimated net loss of over $900,000 v. a net profit of about $20,000,000 for the same period...
People who think they know the worst about The Bomb have some grisly surprises in store. Even long-range, atom-carrying rockets (still in the designing stage) are already an old-fashioned notion. In this month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Edward Teller, a Chicago University physics professor who played an important part in developing The Bomb, looks alarmingly ahead...