Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Perón. The estancieros' undoing began in 1944 with the rise of Dictator Juan Perón, who promised his lower-class descamisados (shirtless ones) steak on every plate and decreed meat prices as low as 6? a Ib. When the landowners opposed him, Per¶n ordered prohibitive land taxes, forcing the breakup of many ranches, decreed 60% wage boosts for workers, lured away cow hands by promising still higher wages in newly established industries. The most far-reaching legislation of all was an inheritance law that provided that each heir must get an equal share...
...year-olds, at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Driver Ralph Baldwin maneuvered the 1-to-5 favorite into first place at the half-mile pole, sat back and let him breeze home a length ahead, thus making Speedy Scot the first standardbred to retire the Founder's Plate, awarded to the horse that wins major stakes races at the Roosevelt at two, three and four years...
Natural Forces. Even if the steel companies do announce price hikes, they will probably not be across-the-board but limited and selective increases on such products as plate steel, demand for which is so great that delivery time has risen to 14 weeks. The auto unions are likely to settle for a package between the 3.2% ceiling requested by the Administration and the 4.9% increase in the industry's productivity. No other really big industry negotiations come up until mid-1965. Last week's announcement that unemployment has dropped below 5% for the first time...
Floating Out Glass. Ordinary plate glass is melted, put through a series of rollers and then ground and polished to remove imperfections. The float process, devised by Alastair Pilkington, the company's production head and a distant cousin of the founder, produces better glass more simply and cheaply. In the process, molten glass flows onto the surface of hot liquid tin, acquiring a smooth, flawless surface as it floats, then is quickly cooled and hardened before it can be marred by touching any solid object. By reducing the steps in the production process, the method saves...
...million sq. ft. of float glass, which is now used for windshields in nearly all of the 2,000,000 cars made in Britain each year. Most of the world's major glass producers have obtained licenses to make glass according to Pilkington's patented process. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., the first licensee, is already floating out glass...