Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some quick way to cut an escape hatch in the ship. Now such a device has at last been developed. For more than a year the U.S. Navy has been performing wonders in rescue and harbor-clearing work by means of an amazing underwater torch which cuts thick steel plate like cheese...
...James Paul Warburg, an early New Dealer, then a fervent anti (Hell Bent for Election) and finally, in 1944, a doorbell-ringer for Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. Field and Warburg's ambition is to set up as a rival to powerful Western Newspaper Union which sends boiler-plate material ("pretty reactionary") to U.S. weeklies. Says Field, grinning: "I don't think I'll make my fortune here...
...world's steel production in 1935). Other steel facts: 1) the $2 billion cost of the expansion (15 million tons since 1941) was borne about equally by business and government; 2) western steel capacity is now 4,900,000 tons-about 5% of the U.S. total; 3) plate steel capacity, a probable headache after the war, is up six to 13 million tons annually...
...Bite. At Camp Butner, N.C., Private Willie Jackson lacked a dog-tag but got his pay all right when he produced his upper plate, inscribed: "Willie Jack...
Wallace, whose hurling has spearheaded the team all year, turned in another fine performance. Aside from his work at the plate, he bore down in the clutch to keep Tufts under control, and fanned nine of the visiting batters...