Word: ings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverone soon found that if vend ing-machine operators had been crooked, the customers were worse. In its first year Leverone's company took in $30,000 worth of slugs. Undaunted, Leverone and his engineers installed magnets to winnow out iron slugs, developed a three-fingered scanning device to reject slugs with holes in them. To reject more sophisticated slugs, he inserted a small anvil in his machines just below the coin slot; coins that were either too hard or too soft bounced off the anvil into slots leading to the coin-return chute. When cheaters dis covered slugs...
...challenging and plain-spoken document, the Church of England last week called on all Britons to revise their think ing about sexual offenders. A special council set up to study the problem said that the church sternly and without reservation "condemns all infractions of the Christian teaching on sexual chastity," but nevertheless contends that "long experience has shown that it is futile to attempt to crush sexual immorality by statutory measures and police action." Because consideration of the subject "is repugnant to many thinking people, for many years much-needed reforms in the laws relating to homosexual offenses and prostitution...
...stockholders at the annual mee ing last week. Board Chairman Roger M. Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. totted up all the expansion plans his company had either committed itself to or was considering. The total came to 1,000,000 tons annually for the next ten years, with a total capacity for U.S. Steel of nearly 50 million tons by 1966. The cost will be $5 billion, and to finance it; U.S. Steel must have higher prices. Said Big Steel's Blough: ''Our profits, at their present level, could neither support nor finance the heavy capital expenditures...
...fourth bell--the one Saradjeff considered too close in tone to the third to belong with the others--does not hang in Lowell with the set. Instead it was placed in the Business School tower, where it strikes electrically for the change of classes. Dat- ing from about 1790, it is the oldest of the 18. With winged cherubs' heads deliciately inscribed around the should, the B-School's bell is also considered the most handsome...
...turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...