Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving its 2,250,000 stockholders the right to buy additional shares of its common stock at a special price. Such companies as General Motors and RCA, which have many consumer products to sell, like lots of stockholders because shareowners are likely to become customers as well. Even Youngstown Sheet & Tube gave this factor consideration in its recent 3-for-l split. "Stockholders have a stake in the company," says President Alfred S. Glossbrenner, "and we would suppose that they may try to help us sell a few more tons of steel here and there...
Speaking on the subject "African Universities and Western Tradition," Ashby will talk tonight on "The European Tradition Exported;" his lecture Wednesday is entitled "Balance Sheet for Universitie in West Africa," and the Thursday speech will be "African Nationalism Confronts the University...
Integrated Silicon. But the stuff gets even smaller. Integrated circuits that include everything, even transistors, are built into a single chip of silicon. Westinghouse starts with a sheet of silicon eight one-thousandths of an inch thick and about the diameter of a quarter. On top of this, an even thinner layer of extra-pure silicon is deposited by evaporation and covered with photosensitive masking material. The mask is removed in patterns, allowing successive parts of the silicon to be exposed to vapors, such as boron, that change its electrical properties. Some of the tiny areas become built-in transistors...
...marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles her. If a filling drools out onto a baking sheet or artichoke leaves uncooperatively start to flop out of shape, she just scoops and shoves until natural perfection is unnaturally assembled. Voila...
...clotch of books, paper, notes, and typewriter over-flow the desk. Senior ignores them. By now it's routine. He rips a partly-filled page out of the typewritter, plugs in a fresh sheet and starts to type...