Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket. The casket's glass top was broken in disinterment, said he, and the body, exposed to the air, quickly disintegrated...
...days later it ordered 37 brickmakers to stop using the multiple basing point system, and broadcast a warning to all users-steel, farm machinery, chemicals, etc.-to cut it out. FTC said that it would proceed with suits and complaints now on file against such industries as steel, metal lath and conduits...
...Dallas' Mercantile Bank auditorium last week, stockholders crowded in for the first annual meeting of Lone Star Steel Co. Texans were anxious to know how their first home-owned heavy metal industry (TIME, April 7, 1947) was doing. They heard the good news that Lone Star's stock, floated at $1.50 a share, was selling over the counter for as high as $7.50. Then came the bad news...
...library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures (fee: $600 to $1,000), earned more than...
...story, to be brief, is as follows. Across the river, destroying the somewhat aesthetic composition of the Business School and the Stadium, a metal tower is going up. Rumor has it that the tower is for television or something of the kind, but there is no reason to believe that insidious little story. Surely there is enough madness in the world already without a misplaced francophile trying to rival the Eiffel Tower with the sole aid of an erector set, thereby destroying Harvard's architectural symmetry...