Word: ferro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized from the sale of Opelika's radio station WJHO and other holdings, sold stock to friends by incorporating in 1950, raised another $246,675 in 1953 by a public offering of 149,500 shares of stock. After licking production problems, he developed a new tape coating (Ferro-Sheen) with unusually high fidelity. This caught the eye of the Ampex Corp., a maker of wire recorders and other electronic equipment, which had gone into the manufacture of tape recorders after one of its engineers had brought two of the Magnetophons back from Germany. ORRadio and Ampex worked together...
...Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars and as many Doric and Romanesque pilasters, rococo arches, turrets, flying buttresses, rooftop pergolas, asparagus-shaped domes, gingerbread plaques and ferro-concrete statuary as the construction will stand. The skyscrapers got the lion's share of Russia's postwar building resources, but the Communists received poor value for their money. Plumbing failed, elevators stuck, doors and windows were full of cracks, balconies fell into the street. Less than two years...
...crew of engineers examined the cracks, found them minor, and buttressed them with concrete. Major repairs on the Stadium were not effected until 1951, when the entire ferro-concrete structure was reinforced...
Another reason for the increased deficit, said Reynolds, were improvements made on the Stadium. The Stadium, which was the first ferro-concrete structure in this country, has long been in need of repair and its steel frame has needed reinforcing...
Barnaby. Shortly after, Cartoonist Johnson himself tired of drawing the strip and turned it over to Collaborators Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, though he kept his hand in on & off, began writing the dialogue again in 1948. Somehow much of Barnaby's appeal disappeared, and the number of papers fell off by almost half. Last week Johnson announced that next month he will end Barnaby altogether. Although Barnaby readers always assumed that the child was ageless, Johnson said not so. Barnaby is finally growing up. He will soon reach his sixth birthday, and six-year-olds need no fairy...