Word: surplus
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Russia, he continued, is in a precarious condition, although the war thus far has had little effect upon the supply of foodstuffs. The territory acquired from Rumania, he stated, "produced a surplus of wheat, corn, and other grains, but both Poland and the Baltie states have had no surpluses of food...
What went on in Charlestown was likely to happen in many another U. S. community. Unlike most other materials of war, explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules...
...milk its needy students to erect fancy laboratories and hire costly lecturers. But it holds its debtors responsible for building up its loan funds--a function that should be left exclusively to the donors of the future. At present, there is no shortage of loanable money; and considerable surplus margins are left over each year, particularly in the graduate schools...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
...soil. One million plastic automobiles (average annual Ford production) would consume 50,000 tons of synthetic chemicals, 170,000 tons of agricultural products. Possible makeup: 100,000 bales of cotton (U. S. annual output 12,000,000 bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung...