Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chaplain Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
Little was heard of the tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
Since World War II, the corporation has spent more than $3.5 billion to improve plants. U.S. Steel's modern, automatic, seamless-pipe plant at Lorain, Ohio produces four times as much as an older plant of the same size-and with about half the manpower. Big Steel also has closed some of the older, less efficient plants and shunted their business to the huge new plants it has built near its busiest markets, e.g., the $600 million, 2,200,000-ton Fairless Works near Trenton, N.J. Last week U.S. Steel said it will shut the 72-year-old Rankin...
FIRST ALUMINUM BEER CANS in U.S. will be marketed by Hawaii Brewing Corp. in the islands. Seamless cans are made by punching single aluminum slug, weigh 50% less than "tin" cans...
...PRICED ALUMINUM cans are starting to roll out, eventually will reduce shipping costs and lighten housewife's grocery bag. United States Can Corp. will sell 6-oz. seamless aluminum aerosol cans for as little as 4.5? each, figures price is slightly less than average for equivalent steel-based...