Word: rivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kaiser's own shipping costs for steel from his Fontana plant had gone up 17½% in the general freight rate carriers. At the news that his Utah competitor was actually getting a reduction, he jumped as if someone had dropped a hot rivet in his pocket. The lowered Geneva freight cut, he cried, would amount to a "subsidy of some $1,200,000 a year" to Geneva. In his complaint Kaiser had some strange allies: the eastern steel companies, competitors of U.S. Steel, whom he had long condemned...
...doctors' most notable progress, points out Author Berg, has been in treating paralyzed patients, thanks to Sister Kenny's physical therapy. Also promising: the rivet-gun technique developed by California Surgeon Harvey Billig, who pounds paralyzed muscles into a pulp and crushes the nerves attached to them, thereby stimulating the growth of new nerve endings and restoring strength to the muscles by bringing more muscle fibers into play...
...nation's vacation hunger, the summer of 1946 would be remembered for more than roadside photographs. In Manhattan and many a big city the half-forgotten chatter of rivet guns sounded once more from the bare girders of new buildings. Crops were making a comeback; in Iowa the corn was pushing up 'way ahead of last year...
Thanks to Antonio, the Costas may soon be able to move to roomier quarters. Meanwhile the hubbub has become too much for Papa Costa, a glass worker. Recently Papa took to disappearing mysteriously. One night Mama Costa blindfolded Antonio and pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
...seminary at Chartres is not unique. At Rivet, near Algiers, a seminary was set up in 1943 by General Robert Boisseau, who was in charge of German war prisoners during the Allied African invasion. When Boisseau moved to France, he organized the one at Chartres, procured Father Stock to head...