Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand. Sticking closely to the Sofia decisions, the government announced that Mindszenty was being held incommunicado on suspicion of "treason, attempting to overthrow the democratic regime, espionage and foreign currency abuses." The Communists gave out a long list of incriminating documents said to have been found in "a metal box buried in a cellar in the cardinal's palace...
...RADIO & TV) was hit last week by its first big wave of price cuts. U.S. Television Manufacturing Corp. lopped 13% to 22% off the prices of three bestselling models. Next day the industry buzzed with reports that RCA was about to bring out a set with a 16-inch metal viewing tube that would give twice as big a picture as the ten-inch tube used in most sets. Emerson and Stromberg-Carlson were expected to follow suit. The reported price for the RCA set: around $500, or $195 less than U.S. Television's slightly smaller (15-inch...
...liquidated the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, and ordered the left-wing Farm Equipment & Metal Workers to merge with the United Auto Workers...
...were typewritten copies of State Department dispatches; four were handwritten memoranda (three in the handwriting of Alger Hiss-see cut-a fact which Hiss has not denied, though he denied giving them to Chambers). The "pumpkin papers" are the second part of the cache. This consisted of three metal capsules containing five rolls of microfilm, of which two rolls were developed and three undeveloped (one of the undeveloped rolls was light-struck). These were taken out of Chambers' pumpkin by House committee investigators on the night of Dec. 2. Chambers had put them there only that morning...
...allocated $26 million to Western European nations to buy aluminum. They had been using the dollars to buy Canadian ingots at 16? a lb. This gave the Europeans a surplus of aluminum. They shipped the metal to the U.S.-where there is a shortage-in the form of scrap. U.S. fabricators were paying as high as 25? a lb. for their European scrap...