Word: impactions
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...Drastic Impact. Meanwhile, by the simple device of phoning the Air Force Liaison Office on Capitol Hill, an obscure Congressman from Los Angeles, Samuel William Yorty, got a written statement from the Air Force knocking down some of Boss Wilson's arguments...
...proposed cut, said the Air Force, would have a drastic impact on the nation's air strength. The 120-wing goal would not be reached until June 30, 1956, the year after Wilson said it would be reached. Even then, the 120 wings would have insufficient equipment and manpower. Contracts already let would have to be canceled, creating the danger that "large segments of the aircraft industry would be cut so sharply that they could not adequately respond to later aircraft orders...
...subject to revision in the light of changing economic conditions. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice, who wants to keep the comparatively strike-free status G.M. enjoys in the auto industry: "[The agreement was] a practical solution to problems created by the Korean war with its resulting inflationary impact...
...Times's John Martin found it hard to take. "Nothing whatever of choreographic texture,"he wrote, and doubted "whether it is to everybody's taste." The Herald Tribune's Walter Terry decided that "the idea itself possesses impact [done with] taste and tenderness, some wry humor and much beauty...
...mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass of meteoritic material has ever been detected below the bed of the crater...