Word: seams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producers have not bothered to refine their process much. The moviegoer is really watching three movies at once, and when, as still frequently happens, one half of a cathedral or a Japanese chorus girl, no matter how solid, is parted from the other by a sudden tear in the seam where the images meet, the trick becomes all too crudely apparent...
...last week, prayed for help to St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, then walked out of the House of Hospitality to persuade the judge to set aside the fine. Outside the hostel, where daily she feeds some 200 to 300 and nightly shelters 60 men and women, a rumpled, seam-faced man stepped from the knot of drifters and pressed something into her hand. "I just read about your trouble," he said. "I want to help out a little bit. Here's two-fifty." She thanked him, but it was not until she was in the subway that...
...coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed as a Stone Age relic...
...Manufacturing Co.'s 40-ton continuous coal miner that can eat into a coal seam at the rate of 4½ feet per minute, mine eight tons of coal in the same time (see cut). Two boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...
...Customs Procedure. "Many goods take longer to pass through customs than it took Columbus to discover America," said a 1953 U.S. Government report. There are 20 different chargeable rates on fine animal hair, half a dozen for leather gloves, depending on whether the seam is sewn by hand or by machine. Charges often vary as much at 25% between New York and New Orleans, and at the end of 1953 there were some 750,000 unsettled customs entries-the equivalent of a full year's work-pending on inspectors' desks...