Word: foil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war, Germany's Aluminum-werke Tscheulin turned out aluminum foil used by the Nazis to confuse Allied radars.* Last week, the plant's machinery-1,350 tons in 1,100 crates-lay on San Francisco's docks; it had been shipped to the U.S. as reparations under the Potsdam Agreement. The buyer, Henry J. Kaiser, moved the machinery out on 60 flatcars for reassembly at his Permanente Metals Corp., at Los Altos. By January, he hopes to begin turning out 500,000 pounds a month of foil for cigarettes...
...Three companies submitted bids for the aluminum plant and Kaiser got it for only $203,000. The cost of moving it was another $100,000. Before the plant is producing, Kaiser will have spent an estimated $1,000,000. But Kaiser, who would have to wait months to get foil machinery in the U.S., thinks the German plant will be cheaper, and in operation much sooner. So far only one other U.S. company has bought German machinery. Philadelphia's Resinous Products and Chemical Co. got a chemical plant...
First event on the 8 o'clock program will be a wrestling exhibition between Harvard 165-pounder Donald Louria and M.I.T. captain Whit Mauzy, whom Louria edged this winter, 4 to 3. Fencers Neil McNeil and Bill Raney will put on foil and sabre exhibitions with M.I.T.'s Mario Abbatte and Frank Kellogg...
Sparkler. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. brought out its Raleigh cigarettes in a shiny new aluminum foil package, now being tried out in Detroit. The pack, stronger and more moisture-proof than paper, was developed by Reynolds Metals Co. Raleigh hopes to offset the higher material cost by production savings in wrapping the single-sheet unit...
...Vera, Winthrop's super-swordsman, clinched his third House fencing title yesterday by defeating Derek O'Donoghue of Kirkland in the epee finals. Vera, who took the foil and saber awards earlier this week, gave the Puritans first place in the tourney...