Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still without a consistent world policy, still grateful for any chance to wait for the dust to settle, was making the logical worst of its uncertainty. Last week, while it was trying to drum up the courage and decision of its friends, it was also ignominiously truckling to its enemy...
Last spring, the world's first 55-gallon steel drum to be lithographed in full color flashed down the line at Rheem Manufacturing Company's New Orleans plant. Rheem had begun in earnest to cash in on its 1949 investment of over a million dollars to develop color lithography and precision inner linings for 55-gallon steel shipping containers. The exclusive Rheemcote process was realizing its aim: to make colorful steel salesmen out of the once drab steel drum...
Reception of the process when it was unveiled last May was overwhelming. Brand-conscious manufacturers envisioned uniformity in package decoration from smallest to largest containers. Makers of corrosive, hard-to-contain products eagerly eyed anti-corrosive and sanitary Rheemcote interior linings; saw that the tough, cheap steel drum could replace less durable and often costlier special packages...
...President Frank Stanton saw ultimate victory "in a few months," and announced the showing this week of a new CBS colorset featuring a 17-inch screen. Employing a revolving color drum, the new set frees the CBS system from the limitation of 12½-inch screens caused by the bulky color wheel (TIME...
...headed by Defense Secretary George Marshall, Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, four state governors, 15 generals, two admirals and seven former American Legion commanders, jammed into Dawson to pay their respects to big Erle and watch a two-mile-long parade which included everything from fancy-gaited horses to drum majorettes who, on a chilly afternoon, wore more goose pimples than clothes...