Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SARACEN BLADE (406 pp.)-Frank Yerby-Dial...
...Blade. Dr. E. F. Fullam of General Electric Co. told about a slicing machine that apparently does its work without even touching the material that it slices. The machine has a small circular blade that is spun by an electric motor at 65,000 r.p.m. Its rim, moving faster than sound, forms a cutting edge of compressed air much sharper than a razor. Hard metals can be sliced into films two-millionths of an inch thick. Since the blade does not get dull, Dr. Fullam believes that it never touches the work...
Clark Gable suavely fills his usual sweaty-chested, he-man role as Dan Burke, a Texan cattleman who "only fights for money." However Ava Gardner as the pert, pretty editor of the "Austin Blade" finally reforms him. Broderick Crawford, although too deadpan, gives a better than average portrayal of the traditional "badman." Gable fights for annexation, Crawford against, and Miss Gardner wavers in between...
...last paragraph in the Oct. 8 issue of TIME told of the Pal Blade Co.'s unsuccessful search for a female barbershop quartet...
Like legendary Joe Magarac, the U.S. finds the source of its strength in steel. The average American is awakened every morning by a steel alarm clock, hops out of a steel-springed bed, shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real...