Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...missile gap" will loom bigger in November if Democrats can succeed in convincing the voters that the U.S. is also lagging in the space race, in rate of economic growth, and in scientific-technical education-and that all the lags together add up to a danger that the U.S. may slip to "second best" in the world. Such a composite "secondbest" issue is already shaping up among pundits. But it is a sticky issue for a Democratic candidate to grab hold of, involving a risk that it might lose votes by seeming unpatriotic...
...crowds leaving Seoul for the Lunar New Year celebrations, had sold 2,300 more tickets than the 18-coach train could carry. At that moment on Track 3 underneath the waiting room, the engineer of the Mokpo train blew a long whistle blast to signal switch crews to add more coaches...
...clear that he was just browsing and not afflicted by any passion to pen his memoirs, as so many of his comrades-in-arms have done. Such books, said he, brim with "many critical remarks and self-praise at the expense of others. Any memoirs I wrote could not add historically to what has been written...
Thoreau had other troubles at home. With expenses running up, the committee was forced to ask the California legislature to add another $1,000,000 to the $8,000,000 the state had already sunk in Squaw Valley. Worst yet, only 135,000 tickets had been sold of a capacity total of 385,000. Innkeepers and landlords were cutting prices (e.g., February rental of a cabin with room for 14 was down from $4,000 to $1,900) as the storm clouds gathered over Squawk Valley...
BLOW TO FEATHERBEDDING was delivered by New York State's Public Service Commission, which unanimously urged state legislature to repeal 47-year-old full-crew laws for railroads. It said that laws, which add extra members to train crews in New York, fail to improve safety but cost railroads about $4,400,000 a year, lead to "a waste of manpower and money...