Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...
...picture in the April 14 issue of TIME showing eight labor mad dogs beating one worker must have stirred the blood of every person who saw it. The wielder of what appears to be an iron rod [it was a child's baseball bat-ED.] seems to be aiming for the victim's spinal column with a blow backed by all his strength...
...slide was shown by Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research to the annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia. It was a picture of the virus which causes the mosaic disease of tobacco plants, one of the largest molecules known to chemists. It is a rod-shaped structure, about 40,000,000 times the size of the hydrogen atom (basic unit of atomic and molecular weight). But even at this size it could be photographed only with the recently developed electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28), which by using electron beams instead of light can magnify images...
Toward his men, Sir Percy is precise, unostentatious, efficient in a banker's quiet way rather than with the bluff explosiveness most commanding salts are supposed to have. But he is a stiff rewards-and-punishment disciplinarian of the old grog and rod school. He has had two wives, but he is married to the Navy. When he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches, his wife said: "My husband has one hobby, the Navy...
...noticeable that the poll included only those who would be affected by the present draft law and not by any new law which might go into effect in the near future. The poll was used as a measuring rod to help University officials estimate the result of the draft on the College...