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Word: lamina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Usage:

...father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business as in his father's day. Soon Baby was making the army's machine guns, buying copper and bauxite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Life with Baby | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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