Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four-color printing. Other Springdale firsts include an aluminum-backed letterpress plate, an internal lockup plate cylinder, a high-speed bindery, and the "balanced light"illuminator box...
...Motors' new Technical Center outside Detroit) has made U.S. resources, machine craftsmanship and technical brilliance the envy of the world. Because there have been and are great opportunities in the U.S., the country now has a virtual monopoly on the best creative architectural talent of this century (see box...
...caption of Cartoonist Steig's own famed version of a man in a box: "People Are No Damn Good...
...changed his mind, asked for an administrative hearing (which was denied), took his case to the courts, and went to work as a tree surgeon. That was three years ago. Last week, in a 6-to-3 decision that was certain to involve it in even more controversy (see box), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Cole's favor, ordered him reinstated with back pay (estimated at nearly $13,000). In so ruling, the court held that Government employees in "nonsensitive" jobs may not be dismissed as security risks under the basic security risk...
...logical villains of slavery, the master sometimes outdid them in inventive cruelty. One South Carolina owner used to put his Negroes in hogsheads with nails driven, in all around and roll them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza who fled across Ohio River ice, but with no bloodhounds in pursuit. In fact, the bloodhounds are a bit of stage...