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...event, they stepped up to a giant, red-hot ladle, tugged at the 20-foot handle and poured a mold full of aluminum-the first produced in what will be the biggest U.S. aluminum plant. When Kaiser's plant is completed in mid-1953, it will turn out 200,000 tons of aluminum annually, more than the entire U.S. industry produced...
...managed to concoct two hours of first-rate musical comedy entertainment merely by tossing together a standard love plot, a romantic background, and three or four song hits of 20 years ago. It has stood pat on the stock Hollywood formula; but by perfect taste in filling the mold with Gershwin, Paris, and a captivating French ingenue by the name of Leslie Caron, it has turned out one of the most enjoyable musicals in years...
Green Stone. Another group of diggers, led by Dr. George Glenn Cameron of the University of Michigan, reported last week on their trip to the wild mountain country between Iraq and Iran. Their job was to get a perfect mold in a latex rubber compound of a green stone that stands in an inaccessible 11,000-ft. pass looking south toward Mesopotamia. The stone was erected by King Ispuinis of the Urartians, a civilized people who lived some 2,800 years ago on the northern border of the great Assyrian Empire. From time to time the Urartians challenged the mighty...
...positive, affirmative approach . . . is a plain duty of the banking community. [It would give] the public the idea that banking stands for something besides its own special interests. I would expect banking to take its place with progressive industry and organized labor in trying to influence and mold public opinion on the critical economic issues of our times...
...successful chemical producer specializing in making citric acid by fermentation. When, in 1941, the Government asked Pfizer, Merck & Co., and E. R. Squibb to try to mass-produce penicillin, Pfizer was right at home; penicillin could be made only by fermentation. But the process was slow because the mold, which needs air to exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate of one unit to 1,000,000 units of broth. Says McKeen: "It was just about the amount of gold you find in sea water." Pfizer worked out a method...