Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most distinguishing feature of the Phillips business is the fact that it buys tin plate, makes its own cans. About 85% of the Phillips cans are used in its 14 packing plants, the rest sold outside. Campbell's cans are made by Continental Can, which has a plant next door to the big soup works in Camden, N. J., rolls the cans on to the Campbell conveyer belts automatically...
...plate the Crimson has a potentially strong punch. Ben Prouty returns to left field for his initial appearance of the season. Braman Gibbs is back in his old position, fifth on the batting order...
Following Gibbs comes Al Colwell, first baseman, and a leading hitter on his Freshman team last year, George Tittmann, in left field, and Captain Maguire, behind the plate...
Last January it struck a photographic plate under Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope, where its record was observed by famed Edwin Powell Hubble. Because of its great distance the star never approached naked-eye visibility, faded rapidly in late February. But Dr. Hubble's coworker, Dr. Milton LaSalle Humason, took spectroscopic and photometric observations which indicated that at the peak of its long-ago death agony the super-nova was 50 times as hot and 10,000,000 times as bright...
Meanwhile the Federal Trade Commission was bringing suit against Bethlehem Steel Co., American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. (U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary), and 13 other steel concerns for refusing to sell a cheap grade of tin plate to tin can manufacturers. According to the Commission, little tin can makers could not afford to buy the better grade of plate used by American Can and Continental Can, with the result that the steel men were creating a monopoly for the No. 1 and No. 2 U. S. can makers...