Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single-sideband radio to Holloway and to the Sixth Fleet commander, Vice Admiral Charles R. ("Cat") Brown, swamping down coffee, sucking on his pipe, reading the red and yellow dispatches reporting the global deployment of the U.S. Navy. Morning found Burke still in his office, the Navy deployed, the lead battalion of Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider...
...Proving that baseball is not played by the book, Manager Casey Stengel called on Oriole Hurler Billy O'Dell to save the American League's 4-3 lead in the All-Star game. O'Dell, who has an 8-9 record and has never had a winning season since coming to the majors in 1954, got rid of nine men on 27 throws. Bubbled Casey: "He had a fast ball, a slider and a mysterious pitch up from Mexico...
...gothic spectrum was expanded by modern chemistry to include an endless range of intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon worked several months on sketches (one-tenth actual size), made monthly trips to Reims to supervise the work. Said he: "I would love to do others. But at my age that is not likely. I'm sorry they did not ask me to do this...
MINING SUBSIDIES of $155 million for depressed copper, lead, zinc, tungsten and fluorspar (TIME, May 19) passed Senate by such a high margin (70-12) that bill stands good chance of riding through House and becoming law this summer...
...year young Norman graduated from Harvard, Julius decided to build an office building across from Manhattan's Penn Station. Though the area was largely occupied by factories, Tishman thought it would be ideal for commuting office workers. He was right; other companies followed his lead. Right after World War II, the firm built the first fully air-conditioned office building and the first metalclad office building in Manhattan...