Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime is stealing a 4 by 6 inch rectangular sheet of white metal marked "U.S. Mail Schedule." His punishment for "tampering with the mails" can be a $1,000 fine or three years in prison. His last theft--the thinrd in as many weeks--provoked Tutor Cheever to post a terse warning of "a severe punishment' for the offender...
...committed coldblooded, heartless . . . first-degree murder . . . I fail to find one line of mitigating . . . circumstances." The jury agreed. On Dec. 18, Carl Hall, wearing black shorts, and Bonnie Heady, in shorts and a halter, will enter the gas chamber at Jefferson City, Mo. and, seated side by side in metal chairs, will...
...dangerous dependence on Soviet trade concessions. For eight years (1944-52), the Finns worked like demons to pay the Soviet Union $570 million in reparations. The effort cost them dear. To meet Soviet demands for ships and machinery, Finland was forced to double the capacity of its metal industry. It ended up with an artificial industrial plant, geared not to its own needs but to Russia's, and lacking alternative (nonCommunist) markets to take care of the surplus. Wages were allowed to rise to uneconomic levels because strikes might have jeopardized regular deliveries, and thus given the Kremlin...
...kinds of economy, such as the case where a salesman, flown direct to a customer in a company plane, signed up a $1,000,000 order before his competition could get there on commercial lines. Planes also have become invaluable for rush deliveries. When Rynel Corp., a small Illinois metal-gear manufacturer, announced that rush orders would be delivered within 24 hours by company plane, its orders shot up from $30,000 to $300,000 in a single month...
Machine Stethoscope. When the cutting tool of a metal-working machine bites into metal, it makes a sound whose loudness is proportionate to the amount of metal removed. Around this effect, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has built a new "machine stethoscope." A small microphone measures the noise made by the tool, so that the machine operator can judge if it is cutting too deeply. M-H claims that it helps him work faster and with less fatigue...