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After V-E day, a U.S. technical mission raced the Russians to grab the presses. The U.S. got two, which exerted a forging pressure of 16,500 tons, three times as much as any operating U.S. press (although, at the time, the Mesta Machine Co. was making an 18,000-tonner). But the Russians snatched the world's largest, a 33,000-tonner. The U.S. later turned the two German presses over to Bohn Aluminum and Alcoa to experiment with aluminum forgings. But while the Russians put their big press to work and started building a 55,000-tonner...
...tonner and a 35,000-tonner to be built by E. W. Bliss at a total cost of $14 million. Only two weeks ago, Alcoa got a letter of intent to operate a 35,000-tonner and a 50,000-tonner to be built by United Engineering & Foundry and Mesta Machine. Wyman-Gordon has a contract to operate two similar presses which Loewy Construction will make...
...Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta arrived in Stockholm "to learn and enjoy as much as I can," almost at once found something she enjoyed. Said she: "I love your red cows. They remind me of our Middle West. I wish I could take one home with...
...hopeful last-minute invitation seekers. Cinemactress Irene Dunne, arriving by air to attend the Venetian film festival, came ready with a special red velvet costume, just in case. It took the best efforts of Hollywood pressagentry to wangle her an invitation just an hour before the party began. Perle Mesta, reputedly bidless, told reporters firmly: "I want it understood that I am not going...
Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta told a Saturday Review of Literature reporter that she liked to have an Air Force band at her G.I. parties. "Those cute things, just 19 or 20, away from home . . . They're just so cunning. They're Perle this and Perle that. Then they'll look shy at me and say, 'Would it be good manners if I used this fork?' " She hoped, Perle added, that people no longer considered her frivolous. "They've changed a little, don't you think? They thought I was just a partygiver...