Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch shell. Part of the secret is the dwarfish tubes, no bigger than lima beans. Part is the system of "wiring." Instead of the conventional radio's bulky tangle of wires, designers used lines of silver-bearing ink, printed accurately through a stencil on a small ceramic plate. The "resistors" are printed too, in carbon ink. The condensers are paper-thin discs of ceramics, silver-coated on both sides and stuck on the plate. Even the coils can be printed: they are nothing but spirals of delicate silver lines...
...cities and seven states some 16,000 workers trooped back into the Libbey-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants, ended a strike which had tied up an estimated 75% of the nation's flat glass production since Oct. 22. The basis of settlement: a 10.7? an hour pay increase retroactive to Oct. 2: a contract guaranteeing new wage talks on 20 days' notice by the union...
...pretty. To hide her too-prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...
...Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...