Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflationary effect [i.e., price increases] if they were measured by that criterion. We shouldn't be so prone to ... decry profits in our economy. We tax profits. We don't tax industrial activity as such. So, if you are trying to get profits down to zero you are going to have to find some other way of finding federal revenue, if we are going to run this Government, I assure...
...morning Oregonian (circ. 233.856). Few entrants knew of the prohibitive odds against winning such circulation-promotion contests: usually more than 100.000 to one.*Last week both Portland papers took to their front pages with embarrassed confessions that some of the winners had somehow reduced the odds against winning to zero...
...channel money to the United Fund and other St. Louis charities. Where is the money coming from? As new Local 688 contracts are negotiated, each employer will be required to kick in a dollar or two per employee every month as a contribution to the fund. Teamster contributions: zero. The Gibbons pitch: "Let's give some money to charities. You bring the money...
...German firm desperately sought to win an electrical construction contract away from the East Germans, the East German representative impatiently burst out: "Gentlemen, let's stop this nonsense. I have orders from my home office to undercut any Western price-even if I have to go to practically zero...
Newest notion is to use magnet coils cooled by liquid hydrogen to 10° or 20° above absolute zero ( - 459.6° F.). At this temperature the conductivity of metals is enormously increased. Supercold coils carrying monstrous currents might produce magnetic fields strong enough...