Word: foil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wearily, the surgeons closed the tops of the little skulls with plastic and aluminum foil, and after more than twelve exhausting, nerve-racking hours, the operation was over. For the first time in their lives, Roger and Rodney lay side by side. Seeing them wheeled from the operating room in separate cribs, Farmer Brodie said in a choking voice: "It sure looks good to see them apart...
Theft-Proof Wheat. The Roosevelt Stockman's Association put on sale confetti to foil wheat thieves. (For the last few years there have been several big wheat thefts a year in Roosevelt County, Mont.) Packaged with a code number printed on each piece of paper, the confetti is mixed with the farmer's wheat, and the code number recorded by elevator men when the wheat is traded. If the wheat is stolen, the code number makes it easy to identify when resold...
Fraternity players flocked to the field house in answer to the coaches "plea." Retaliation was in order the following year at Cambridge, but two Crimers visited Hanover first to foil the plans. Bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping some Lampoon "fruits," and dyeing the Charles green were among the abortive projects...
...million Ibs. a year. Moreover, when Reynolds completes its new $35 million reduction plant at Arkadelphia, Ark., the company's total aluminum capacity will be 829 million Ibs., 2½ times the whole nation's prewar production. Reynolds itself, little more than a maker of packaging foil before World War II, will then be the nation's No. 2 basic producer of aluminum. Not only Reynolds, but Alcoa and Kaiser, the other members of the big three, have been expanding as well. Because of the power shortage, the new plants have shunned the hydroelectric centers (TVA, Bonneville...
...controlled by Reynolds, which long made Eskimo Pie foil-wrappers...