Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lear Inc.'s F-5 autopilot is much lighter (weight, less than 55 lbs.) than its predecessors, and so small (volume, 1 cu. ft.) that its parts have to be assembled by watchmakers' methods. When the plane is once in the air, the pilot can point it on its compass heading, turn on the autopilot, and relax as far as flying is concerned...
After repeating the experiment many times, Swearingen decided that if a passenger is sitting less than 7½ inches from the window (i.e., in the window seat) he will be "captured" by the outrushing air. Farther away (i.e., in the aisle seat), a passenger would be safer...
...Warned that it would soon be forced to order a cut in the nonmilitary use of tin by "something less than 30%" and that it might ban copper and cobalt for nonessential products where other metals can be substituted...
...Government, long confident that synthetic rubber would be plentiful enough to compensate for cutbacks in natural rubber, last week had a confession to make: the Government's synthetic output was expanding more slowly than expected. Therefore, the National Production Authority told manufacturers that they will get 13% less synthetic in early 1951 than they had expected...
...Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's narrative is less bedizened with verbal gimcrackery, but it is still a bit too tricky for every taste. Nevertheless, there is no living author who moves about in fairyland with such wit and easy familiarity. As for inner meanings, please yourself...