Word: kernel
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...experiencing significant changes in components of our gross national product." The new industries on the rise, such as electronics and missiles, use comparatively little steel; thus some experts feel that the index statisticians lay too much emphasis on the steel industry. Some transistors, for example, smaller than a kernel of corn, sell for $200 to $300, or more than a ton of steel. And there is a shift in industries themselves. In Los Angeles, where aircraft-industry employment has dropped 12%, or nearly 3,000 workers a month, since last October, new jobs in electronics and missile fields boosted employment...
...Paris to Pleurs, 84 miles southeast, he was visiting the village where Malinovsky had been billeted with Russian troops serving on the western front during World War I. When Malinovsky pointed out the hayloft in which he had slept, Khrushchev swiftly moved in to extract every possible kernel of corn. "Cows below and a future marshal above," he said. "Well, cows make excellent heating appliances...