Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most up-to-date sound: an atomic bomb explosion, as used in Mutual's The Human Adventure. This was a synthesis of three recorded noises: a dynamite blast, escaping steam and the clatter of a boiler room...
What had aroused them was the 300% increase in Canada's tariff on seamless steel boiler tubing, which had been belatedly discovered (TIME, Nov. 5) in Canada's new budget. They reminded the Cabinet that those increases, perhaps petty in themselves, were indefensible in view of the Liberal Government's repeated declarations favoring free trade...
...does not always practice what it -preaches. Buried deep in the budget, and bypassed in a 42-word, offhand way by Finance Minister James L. Ilsley in his recent budget speech (not of "major importance," said he), was a new 20% tariff wall-increased from 5%-on seamless-steel boiler tubing...
...Canada's only boiler-tubing producer...
Progressive Education. In Raritan Township, N.J., the board of education ruled that, since smoking had become a generally accepted practice, the faculty of Oak Tree School might smoke between classes, in the boiler room...