Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inches of the rod remained within the pile. "Pull it to 13 feet, George," Fermi said calmly, watching the meters set up to measure the neutron emission inside the pile. As Weil withdrew the rod, the meters clicked faster and faster. Fermi did some calculating with the little slide rule he always carried with him. "This is not it," he said. The rate of radiation leveled off as neutron emission from uranium and neutron absorption by cadmium came into equilibrium...
...meters clicked dizzily. "This is going to do it," said Fermi, working his slide rule. Recalls Weil: "I had to watch Fermi every second, waiting for orders. His face was motionless. His eyes darted from one dial to another. His expression was so calm it was hard. But suddenly his whole face broke into a broad smile." "The reaction is self-sustaining." Fermi announced. "The curve is exponential." Instead of leveling off, the rate of radiation was continuing to accelerate-a chain reaction was under way inside the pile...
...Commerce slide rule, the squeeze does not seem to come from the most commonly blamed factor: rising wages. Proportionately, U.S. labor costs today are exactly what they were in 1948-64% of the value of total corporate output. The trouble comes largely from two other factors, according to the Commerce Department's statistics. One is that indirect business taxes, particularly property taxes, have increased from 8.9% of the value of corporate production in 1948 to 10.5% now. More important, the amount of their gross income that U.S. corporations allocate to depreciation costs on plant and equipment has risen from...
...Urban housing starts recovered from a deep slide in September to score a 17% rise in October, when they ran at an annual rate of 1,460,000 (see below...
...Rolls. Aptly dubbed "the slide-rule constitution," it divides voters into two rolls, a predominantly white upper roll of some 37,000 voters who must earn at least ?700 ($1,960) a year, and a largely black lower roll of 92,000 with incomes of ?120 or more. Each roll elects 15 members of the Council. One Asian member is chosen by a separate roll of Asian and colored voters. The remaining 14 are elected by both groups under a system that requires white candidates to get 10% of the black votes in their constituency, and vice versa...