Word: contend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with all the other problems that beset the motorist the world over, drivers in Holland have one added hazard to contend with: the canals. An average of two cars a day slip their brakes, back into or otherwise plunge into the country's famed waterways. Last year, 100 drivers and passengers drowned before help arrived...
...biggest and loudest of the pending "national security" arguments concerns heavy electrical equipment. A ban on all Government buying of foreign hydraulic turbines and virtually all other equipment is demanded by General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis-Chalmers and other U.S. makers. They contend that U.S. equipment is better and breaks down less, that foreign builders in wartime could not supply parts and services to bomb-damaged U.S. power plants. They admit that they cannot compete with low-wage (about one-third the U.S. average) foreign producers, but plead that the U.S. should support the domestic industry to keep its huge machines...
Foreign makers contend that this is plain trade nationalism. For one thing, a mere one-half of 1% of the U.S. electric supply depends on foreign generating-equipment. Also, U.S. makers export far more heavy electric equipment than the U.S. imports-$840 million exported, v. $61 million imported from 1952 to 1957. Private utilities have bought little foreign gear, but the Tennessee Valley Authority last month selected Britain's C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd. to build a 500,000 kw. turbogenerator-one of the world's biggest-at Tuscumbia, Ala., and said that Parsons is indeed "qualified, technically...
Those who would make a design for living, says Author Powell, must still contend with those who run up a shack of no design and live in it. Despite technological advances, the world will end not with a bang but a Kwimper...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...