Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...king or laborer alike. ITT represented, to its thousands of workers, one man, who commanded their fierce loyalty, love and admiration. I am glad Colonel Behn did not live to see his dream become a giant conglomerate, where the personal touch and human values are lost in the balance sheet, drowned in the quest for the almighty dollar...
...figures do not even begin to reflect many increases announced over the past several weeks. Since the beginning of August, higher prices have been posted in film, trucks, lumber, aluminum sheet, color TV sets, rubber tires and many electrical appliances. Hardly a day goes by without new rises in one chemical or another. Last week it was liquid chlorine (used in bleaches, paper, textiles) and glycerine (paint, explosives), which got an average 3% price boost by Dow Chemical...
...rise in employee payments Aug. 1 were squeezing earnings. Other producers followed, and the Administration did not press its fight. At 1.8%, the bar price rise was small indeed. But the industry is now on notice to be wary of taking the rumored next step: a boost in sheet and strip steel, which as a key auto-industry item would be certain to have wide impact...
Start again. This time Diana was only 13 feet tall and perfect - an 800-lb. beauty of gilded sheet copper...
Died. Willard Monroe Kiplinger, 76, pioneer in the newsletter business, a onetime Associated Press Washington bureau reporter who in 1923 borrowed $1,000 to start a mimeographed financial and Government tip sheet for businessmen, gradually built his weekly Washington Letter to a circulation of 250,000, and added four specialized letters (tax, agriculture, Florida, California -combined circ. 50,000), along with a monthly Changing Times magazine (circ. 1,000,000), all serving up more-or-less inside dope written in the skeletal style of telegram English; of heart disease; in Bethesda...