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They did that by cutting deficiency payments and increasing triple-base acres from 15 to 20 percent.
Panetta Benson Briefing ITY National Archives 1993
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I wrote the intro to this blog post in a flurry, while I set aside my dinner, because I was excited by the sort of triple-base, line drive that had just happened: the meeting coverage of, like you say, an important issue; using Twitter to get the word out as it happened; and Xpress 'first professional / amateur news-reporting collaboration.
News 2009
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Propellants based on nitrocellulose or nitroglycerine were described as "single-base" powder; others containing both were described as "double-base"; and a third category containing nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine, and other chemicals was called "triple-base" or "multiple-base."
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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