Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck. So far, Fowler McCormick has not had too much luck with Labor. An 80-day strike last year by the Redlined Farm Equipment and Metal Workers' Union (C.I.O.) shut down eleven of the company's 22 U.S. plants. Only this week 8,000 Harvester workers ended a four-day walkout over the discharge of three men. Nevertheless, by profit-sharing and pension plans, McCormick eventually hopes to bring permanent peace...
Aware of this danger, the Soviet General Staff has begun a major undertaking on the Caspian shores: they are erecting a gigantic metal screen, something like an enormous Faraday cage, which would prevent the radioactive effect of the bombs from reaching...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
...hitch remains, baton twirler is lacking. Manager Jay Skinner '48 and other high up in the band hierarchy are currently engaged in an intensive search calculated to produce someone who can toss a shiny metal shaft around. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his stick over the goal posts," Skinner declared...
...course Manager Jay Skinner '48 will be glad to see you if you can play a tuba or beat a drum, but what he really wants is someone who can toss that shiny metal shaft around--two, if possible. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his baton over the goal posts," Sinner declared...