Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hogs were shackled by a leg to overhead conveyor belts, jabbed in their jugular veins, sometimes dumped alive into scalding water. The societies pressured meat packers into joining a committee on humane slaughter that achieved some innovations, e.g., some packinghouses began using a captive bolt pistol, which fires a metal rod into the brain; George A. Hormel & Co. installed carbon-dioxide rooms where hogs were gassed before slaughter. But most packinghouses continued old methods. Angrily, the humane societies took the issue to Congress, early this year got a bill through the House...
...went from 146.53 to 179.54 on the Dow-Jones commodity futures index. The current Mideast crisis has brought no such rise. In the two weeks since the Iraqi coup, the index actually eased down from 156.64 to 156.63. Said R. G. Patterson, director of Lamson & Sessions Co., a Cleveland metal fabricator: "We see no signs of scare buying. Nobody is excited...
...like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian no stink, white man stink...
...line moves slowly. Gradually he nears the metal cart: tray, spoons, knife, fork . . . anything else? Oh, gray card...
...styling will be radically different. But the big news about the car of the future is not so much what it will look like, but what it will be made of. The material: aluminum. After years of experiments, the industry is finally starting to roll with the new metal-with General Motors out ahead, Ford and Chrysler following along behind...