Word: looming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among its strongest opponents will be Dartmouth, last year's champions of the New England League. Once past this mid-season hurdle formidable obstacles still loom in Pennsylvania and Yale. Against these opponents stands a team with depth and a team with an objective. How well it finally does depends now less on its composition or opposition than on its own determination
...same time, Feinberg started reaching out for other well-known lines, e.g., Catalina swimwear (which claims to be the world's biggest swimsuit maker), Fruit of the Loom hosiery. Last week, still pulling itself up by the garters, Kayser agreed to pay $13 million for Milwaukee's thriving Holeproof Hosiery Co. (1954 net: $1,157,984), one of the biggest U.S. lingerie and stocking manufacturers. The merger, Kayser's sixth in one year, will make it the world's largest producer of lingerie, stockings and women's accessories. Solidly in the black, after six years...
...head of Hamilton Mills, a lucrative hosiery concern which then wholesaled its output to chain stores, Feinberg became convinced, in an era of overproduction, that hosiery manufacturers would need well-known retail names to survive, bought into Kayser and then Fruit of the Loom. Now, he says: "We have a sense of assurance that we will be accepted...
...scarcities loom, many a company learns to conserve water. By using, cooling and re-using water until it completely evaporates, Kaiser Steel Corp.'s Fontana, Calif, plant consumes only 1,100 gallons of water per ton of steel v. the industry average of 65,000 gallons per ton. Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point (Md.) plant found a cheap water supply in the treated effluence of Baltimore's municipal sewage. Though the initial equipment cost is higher, some companies are shifting to salt water for cooling...
...blackboard seemed to loom over the auditorium at California's Department of Public Health in Berkeley. It also loomed over the nation. For the blackboard charted every case of polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease...