Word: flows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent bid to buy 100% control of its British subsidiary ("Why should all the profits flow across the Atlantic?"). Last week, newly returned from an 18-month U.S. sojourn, the Express's "This Is America" columnist, personable Peter Chambers, 36, unstoppered a report that read startlingly like a chapter-and-verse rebuttal of his paper's-and his boss's-views...
...young company's biggest problem was assuring a steady flow of raw aluminum for its fabricating plant. In 1955 that problem was solved when the Government, which wanted to increase aluminum capacity outside the Big Three, guaranteed a $40 million bank loan to Harvey. To assure Harvey a market, the Government also agreed to buy up to 54,000 tons a year for five years, beginning in 1959, of Harvey's primary aluminum output for U.S. strategic stockpiles. Since the reduction plant's capacity is only 60,000 tons a year, this was a healthy demand-cushion...
...planters in Britain's steamy Latin American colony of British Guiana, one of life's great irritations has long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel...
...tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of the throat, transmits vibrations into the lower end of the vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while exhaling, inhaling or holding his breath. The gadget comes in two models-low-pitched for men, higher-pitched for women...
...Times is easily astonished. It is difficult to guess what they expected beyond the easy, frothy flow of cliches that must always accompany such projects. If businessmen, professional men, and scholars do not have some well-defined purpose to fulfill (as do, say, the members of the American Assembly in their conferences at Arden House), they are useless as an aggregate of truth-seekers. The committee that Henry Wriston has chaired for the last year had no such purpose; it was a committee on goals that had the distasteful task of operating completely without them...