Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. who was pinked three times by an assassin in 1948, got a token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
...building, going up just off Broadway in Manhattan, station WOR-TV this week sealed a lead-covered, radiation-proof copper box containing predictions by New York TV critics on the future .of television. The predictions, to be opened 100 years from this week, generally foresaw a rosy future for the medium. But the World-Telegram and Sun Critic Harriet Van Home took bitter exception...
...proof of tree farming's success, lumbermen point to the big improvement in U.S. forest growth. In 1918, the U.S. was cutting down 5.8 trees for every new tree that sprouted. This year the ratio has dropped to about i for i. If tree farming continues to spread, lumber companies think that the U.S. may soon be growing more trees than it cuts down...
Last week, Rayinski marched into court with his saxophone (in case proof were needed of his talent), a briefcase (stuffed with documents setting forth the legal rights of street musicians) and a big display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...
...That act ... gave positive proof by actual deeds that the [Communists'] ceaseless professions of ... their devotion to 'democratic' processes and the maintenance of peace were utter shams...