Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even discounting high-energy fuels, borax production is already based solidly on the requirements of more than 100 industries, ranging from glass to pesticides, fertilizers to soaps. And further uses for boron are being found every day. Standard Oil Co. (Ohio) has developed a boron additive for gasoline to provide better economy and lower engine maintenance, is marketing it through Richfield Oil Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Though boron for gasoline this year would account for only $500,000 of all borax sales, U.S. Borax hopes to sell the boron additive directly to dealers, swell boron gas into a healthy...
...tack, with a wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers...
...moved to the block one day last week at Sotheby & Co., London auctioneers, the atmosphere became electric. Lot 40 consisted of two small (18 in. by 13 in.) heraldic glass panels. Dated 1588, they bore on the left the coat of arms (three red mullets and red and white bars) of John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Litt...
...almost half a minute, then knocked Lot 40 down to Davis. Said the sad-faced Jack, who was bidding to return the panels to Sulgrave Manor (a privately operated museum): "A tragedy. We had no chance against the almighty dollar." Davis had bought for the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, N.Y., which plans to bring the panels to the U.S. without delay...
...waterfront loan shark, but it seems that Dr. Palmer stood to gain by Cook's death. One night they met in The Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, to toast the victory of a nag called Polestar. The scene, as Graves engraves it, is worthy of Cruikshank. "Will you take another glass?" asked Cook of Palmer...