Word: chip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage razzle-dazzle tournaments like his All-American Open tournament there last summer. May picked up yards of publicity and the firm belief that most U.S. businessmen are golf-minded. So May feels that any businessman who might escape the mail-order barrage is still within an easy chip shot of his new foundation...
...Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
...become a more useful vehicle for expansion. Low-priced stocks usually attract small-time speculators who figure they get more when they buy 100 shares at $5 than 10 shares at $50; when a businessman sells out his company for another company's stock, he looks for blue-chip prestige. Thus when Standard bought the Loudon Packing Co. (V8 Vegetable Juice) last March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider Packing at about the same time, only common stock changed hands. Expansionist Adams, whose stock phrase is "some...
...Western and northern Europe are also objectives, and Winston Churchill has said that the Allies' mightiest invasion weapon is being shaped in Britain, the western base. A chip from that weapon fell on Sicily last week; the blade may fall anywhere from Norway to southern France...
Called Seaporcel, a silica product, the coating is first sprayed, then fired on the surface of metal. The Navy and Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...