Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under 70%, is still heading down to the rate of current sales-about 45%. Ford last week bought 25,000 new tons (mostly of odd specifications) for only minor price concessions. But other big steel customers, sitting on ample inventories, were unfeazed, are trying to put steelmen over the barrel before reordering. Steel swings 18% of the Federal Reserve Production index...
...over half an hour. Better still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could throw away their pitchers and work on a high-speed assembly line. Few weeks ago big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. bought Peacock Laboratories, lock, stock & barrel, announced that Chemist Peacock would stay on as president...
...over his bows was needed to make the Japanese captain stop. Three British officers and nine seamen went aboard. They had a list of German passengers on the Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed 21 others, all of them able-bodied seamen of military age, former Standard Oil employes being returned to Germany via Japan and Siberia. Japan promptly kicked...
...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...
...apartment in Manhattan's highceilinged, eminently respectable Hotel Ansonia, 20-odd massive, military-looking Danes sat one evening last fortnight around a barrel of Danish beer. The warriors were at ease. They toasted King Christian X, and many another, in glass after glass of clear, burning aqvavit.* After every glass of aqvavit, they downed a chaser of beer...