Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story [July 12] on increasing productivity in American industry, you refer to a major innovation at Pittsburgh Plate Glass in setting up a "float process" that will "double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...
...Phenomenon. Fat chance. The next year Koufax finally learned where the plate was, wound up with 18 victories and broke Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record by striking out 269 batters. Last season he threw a no-hitter against the New York Mets and struck out 18 Chicago Cubs in one game. By midseason his record was 14-4, and he was leading the National League in earned run average (2.06) and strikeouts...
...like illustrations from an illuminated manuscript, it is because the goldsmiths tended to emulate the art of Jean Pucelle, the greatest of Paris' painters of miniatures. The enamel work, as Cellini described it a century later, was a painstaking process. First, he said, "you can grave on your plate anything that your heart delights in." The colored glass that is to form the enamel must be "well ground in a little round mortar with very clean water." The powdered glass is applied "as if you were painting in miniature." It should then be fused to the metal by firing...
Expanding its plant at Cumberland, Md., Pittsburgh Plate Glass is setting up a "float process" that will produce high-quality plate by floating molten glass on a pool of molten tin. Since the process requires no expensive grinders, buffers or polishers, the company will be able to double productive capacity by adding only 100 men to its current work force...
...dearth of really good second sackers, Ken Boyer (.311) is easily the best third baseman in the business, and Bill White (.328) is a superb first baseman in a League which has a lot of excellent ones. Dick Groat (.325) at short and Ed Bailey (.252) behind the plate are adequate, if not quite stellar...