Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock the next morning as thousands of Pittsburghers went to work in the Triangle without getting their feet wet. At 10 a. m. Market Street was hip-deep in swirling water. Workers frantically rushed records and goods to upper floors or slogged for home. As plate-glass windows gave way, leaving rich stores open for looting, 1,500 National Guardsmen marched into the district, threw a khaki line from end to end of Grant Street, the Triangle's base. Up & up surged the dirty water until the marquees of stores and theatres were barely visible, and rowboats were bobbing...
Surety bonding turns upon the completion of contracts. This business covers everything from the delivery of lumber to the painting of a house. National Surety also writes all manner of burglary business, insuring private homes, stocks of merchandise, paymasters, even covering the breakage of plate glass windows, doors, and glass signs. It does not handle any accident insurance, fire insurance or life insurance. Last year National Surety Corp. took in $9,134,000 in premiums, paid out $3,424,000 in losses. It made $959,000 on its policies. It also made $302,000 selling securities, received $458,000 from...
...Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...
Latest additions to the roster are Robert H. Waldinger '36 and Louis B. Carr '37, who reported from hockey last week. The former will help carry the burden behind the plate, while Carr, a week hitter, but fast and strong armed, may be very much in the battle for the shortstop...
...plasterers were making an unholy din in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. With deeply furrowed brow, Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had retired to his office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...