Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tube expands to bind itself solidly to whatever surrounds it. To stamp a flat piece of metal with a pattern, a trademark of elaborate lettering, the metal is placed between a flat coil and a die. When the coil is activated, the opposing magnetic field in the sheet shoves it away from the coil and presses it into...
...dropped his usual reticence last week at his quarterly press conference and delivered a firm defense of the steel industry's pricing policies. It came just three weeks after U.S. Steel and seven other big companies had been indicted on charges of fixing some prices on carbon steel sheets. "If anyone inquires into it," said Blough, "he will find that there is plenty of competition in the steel industry, including price competition. In 1963 alone, on almost 100 separate occasions, we reduced one or more of our product prices. Some of the recent price changes were in galvanized steel...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...
...first glance, the tiny exhibit at the National Cash Register Co.'s pavilion at the New York World's Fair seems singularly insignificant. But the sheet of transparent plastic, less than 2 in. square, is covered closely with 1,240 barely visible rectangles. And when examined with a microscope, each tiny rectangle spreads out into a page of the Bible. Both the Old and New Testament - all 773,746 words of the King James Version - are all clearly recorded on that one slip of plastic. The job took only four hours...
...fact sheet cites the rapid decline of Russian synagogues from nearly 500 five years ago to 90 today, the curtailment since 1958 of Yiddish books and newspapers, and the frequent charges of economic crimes against Jews, as evidence of fast-growing Soviet anti-Semitic policy...