Word: crystalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comforting to remember that exactly 100 years ago, in the historically discontented year of 1848, Britain was going through one of the most serious economic crises of the 19th Century; yet only three years later, at the Crystal Palace celebration, Britons were toasting their unquestioned supremacy in the world of commerce...
Mydans, who claims no crystal ball, was actually in Fukui to dig up material for a forthcoming TIME story on Japanese recovery. He wanted to observe a segment of Japanese life that was not directly under the influence of Tokyo, an area which had been hurt by war but had recovered quickly, in which farming, fishing, and business were all represented, and where the American military government commander knew and liked the people and had won their confidence. "We selected Fukui as a good sampling ground," cabled Mydans, as a postscript to his disaster report, "and had found...
...basing-point system, the important fact was that cement delivered to any given job was sold at a uniform price, no matter who manufactured it. To the court this was collusion, and a wicked practice that must be stopped forthwith. However sound the decision, it did not make things crystal clear. Just a week later, in another Big Business case, the Court upheld an FTC order which seemed to make the appearance of collusion inescapable...
...maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
Biggest & Fastest. All this is a far cry from the elevator seen by New Yorkers at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853. The inventor, a New England master mechanic named Elisha Graves Otis, rode up & down in it, occasionally making the crowd gasp by cutting the elevator's rope cable with a knife. Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring...