Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Comet Us, a bigger, longer-ranged version, which it hopes to put into Atlantic service by 1955, and which theoretically will be able to fly from London to New York in six hours, depending on head winds. Actually, the jet's big fuel consumption may well lengthen the time by a stop en route. But by then, Straight has good reason to hope that both Britain's and the U.S.'s swift progress in the perfection of bigger and more economical jet engines will make possible nonstop jet transports. With the advantage of its jet experience, BOAC...
Fair Deal trustbusters, who have sued to force Pierre, Irénée and Lammot du Pont to give up their control of General Motors, last week asked Chicago's federal court to lengthen the list of defendants. The Government wanted to cite 183 additional members of the Du Pont family in the alleged antitrust conspiracy dating back to 1914. In Wilmington, Del., Lammot du Pont, noting that 96 of the defendants are under 21 years of age and 61 of them under 14, cited, as the prize new defendant, Irénée's granddaughter...
Button far outdistanced his competition in the five compulsory school figures and is highly favored to lengthen his lead in the free skating tomorrow night. The 13 other skaters have only the barest mathematical chance to catch up with...
Some skeptical cosmologists do not admit that the redshift necessarily means that the nebulae are moving. Perhaps, they say, their light "gets tired," losing some of its energy during its tremendous journey through space. Since loss of energy would lengthen the wave length of light, a sufficient amount of fatigue would account for the shift toward the red in the spectrum...
...controversial provisions, however, will probably remain unchanged. So, under the new act, men will have to serve 24 months at some period between the ages of 19 and 26. The first four months will be classified as "training," the rest as "service," with the president free to shorten or lengthen this "service" time as the international situation allows. Each man will go in a reserve unit for the six years after his training and service period...