Word: sash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
...inauguration last week of Juan Antonio Ríos Morales as 22nd President of the Republic of Chile was simple and democratic. Entering the Honor Hall of Parliament as a private citizen, he advanced to the rostrum, took an oath to respect the Constitution, donned the red, white & blue sash-of-office which retiring Vice President Gerónimo Méndez doffed. As "Don Anónimo" Méndez walked out, Don Juan Antonio briefly announced his Cabinet and policy. Both reflected the man, as the man mirrored the epoch...
Kahn had never done one, but "would try." Brother Julius Kahn (later president of Truscon Steel, vice president of Republic) had invented an improved type of steel-reinforced concrete. The Packard fac tory became the first reinforced concrete and steel sash factory in the U. S. It also had window area of revolutionary proportions and a layout planned for efficient production. With this pioneering start, Kahn became the industry's No. 1 architect-engineer, has ever since designed most of Ford's, Chrysler's, General Motors' plants...
...voting was scarcely done the North American Way. The voters had been given no opportunity to elect anyone who had not fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...
...stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned on each the Grand Cross, and hung on each the scarlet sash of the Legion of Honor...