Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as his latest shipment of sheep was okayed by federal inspectors, U.S. sheep raisers called for quotas, higher tariffs, or anything else that would stop the shipments. Said rival California Rancher Clay Broadbent: "Either we stop the Australian sheep-or regulate the flow of them-or it will mean the end of the American sheep industry...
...first season had been in many ways a trial run; port installations were not yet in shape to make their full contribution to the integrated flow of trade. Gauging 1959 against past performance, most cities on the seaway were well pleased-no fewer than 5,861 ships had traversed the St. Lambert lock. Tolls will not be touched for three to five years, until complete trade patterns emerge...
...galaxy is rich in stars, but they cannot see them. The stars and hydrogen, they say, are presumably held together by gravitation and revolve more or less as a unit. The outstreaming hydrogen beyond the ring is hard to explain. They calculate that at the present rate of flow, all the hydrogen should have been drained from the nucleus in a mere 10 million to 100 million years, which is only a tiny part of the life span of a galaxy. Since the nucleus is not drained, its hydrogen must be replenished somehow. Rougoor and Oort suggest that the replenishing...
Beer and Coca-Cola will flow in the usual generous quantities...
...twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom of the Western Conference, can offer Halfback Ollie Matson, 29, whose stride is rated the most beautiful in football, a smooth flow of power that whisks him through the frantic flurry of broken-field blocks and tackles with deceptive ease. On a team that is going nowhere, Matson has broken loose so often that he averages 5.4 yds. per carry...