Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price of steel going up again? Last week some steelmen feared so. One small plant had already boosted the price $6 a ton for plate. Said one steelman gloomily: "If the price of scrap doesn't come down, the price of finished steel will have to go up." In Pittsburgh last week scrap jumped $5 a ton to $43, the highest in 30 years. Pittsburgh companies, frantically searching for scrap among dealers in other cities, heard them quote prices...
Thus shrewdly lured, some 1,200 store executives, buyers and fashion writers from all over the U.S. attended the $17-a-plate champagne supper last week at which Hollywood's "Fashion Futures" were unveiled. What they saw, in Earl Carroll's gaudy Hollywood restaurant, was enough to make some of them wonder who was being kidded. The 98 displays, each by a different designer, ranged in effect from the muffled look of the '90s to the bare look of tiger-skin days...
...would eat the additional poultry they sent to market? If distillers and brewers cut down, what would happen to their unemployed workers? Unlucky Chuck Luckman himself pointed up another question. Turning up in Cambridge for a Chamber of Commerce dinner on meatless Tuesday, he sat down to a heaping plate of fried chicken (see cut). But what was the gain in simply swapping chicken saved on Thursday for meat saved on Tuesday...
Virginia's high-type extroversion naturally has led to an immense school spirit. After the game, every home-state license plate read "Virginia...
...runs behind, when the last game ended. He had come in too late. Bucky Harris' Yankees were normal and steady again. And no one was steadier than Pitcher Joe Page, the Yankees' hero of the day. For five straight innings he shot his fast ball across the plate, and only one Dodger reached base. It was the end of the Dodgers...