Word: paneling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight years, the legendary trust-busting suit against the Aluminum Co. of America quietly, and suddenly, ended last week. In Manhattan's U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a special panel of three judges, sitting for the U.S. Supreme Court, held that Alcoa was a monopoly. Few years ago this would have been the biggest trust-busting news since Standard Oil was broken up. Now, in the light of war changes in the aluminum industry, it had little more than academic meaning...
...Justice Department's No. 1 demand-that Alcoa be dissolved, the panel said.no. It held: "It will be impossible to say what will be Alcoa's position in the industry after the war. ... It is as idle for the plaintiff to assume that dissolution will be proper, as it is for Alcoa to assume that it will not be; and it would be particularly fatuous to prepare a plan now, even if we could be sure that eventually some form of dissolution will be proper. ... It will be a disservice to break up an aggregation which...
Bailey's bridge, designed for speedy building, is nothing more than a large-scale erector set. It consists of interchangeable, prefabricated steel panels which can be swiftly put together in almost any shape. The panels are held together by steel pins stuck through ready-made holes. The only tools needed are a few standard wrenches. Six men can carry the heaviest panel...
...showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City, N.J. burlesque house, painted the picture on gesso panel in a soft-toned mixture of egg yolk and dry color...
...resigning his post in Calro, Dean Landis is abandoning all of his government duties, and will devote all of his time to the Law School. Until September of this year, Acting Dean Morgan had served part-time in Washington as Chairman of the War Shipping Panel of the War Labor Board, but he has since resigned that post and devoted all of his time to his duties at the Law School...