Word: contour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Coast aircraft company's $1,128,000 contour milling machine, which will soon be built to work any known metal into as many as 18 shapes automatically, correct itself with a feedback control keyed to magnetic tape...
...breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...
Windy Battle. In areas of deep soil that has had good care, even this has not yet proven disastrous. In the last two decades man has learned to battle the wind: by planting windbreaks and cover crops, by contour plowing to keep precious moisture in the soil, by use of the double-mouldboard lister plow, which ridges the ground and slows down wind action, by "chiseling" the earth with a spike-toothed Hoeme's* plow, which brings clods of subsoil to the surface...
...Nylon Bed Sheets. Pepperell Manufacturing Co. announced the world's first large-scale production of nylon bed sheets and pillow cases. Woven with more air spaces between threads to allow the material to "breathe," the contour sheets can be washed and dried in a jiffy, need no ironing. Price: $7.50 for double sheets, $5.95 for single, $1.95 for pillow cases, about the same as the most expensive percale...
BEST buy at August white sales will be fitted "contour" sheets, which usually sell at a premium over flat sheets. Reason: manufacturers are cutting prices below flat sheets to move big overstocks...