Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind produces a vacuum on the lee of the slightly slanting sail. This results in a strong forward force. As the sail pushes forward trying to eliminate the vacuum, an iceboat can attain fantastic speeds -up to five times the actual wind velocity. The ice sailor hauls in the sheet for more and more zip, aims his boat with a tiller that controls the front runner. Then, sometimes, he prays...
...printing. Merely to pose the static picture in last week's Look took two full days of work with a one-ton, cubical camera as complicated as an electronic computer. Five additional weeks were required to engrave the photograph, print it some 7,000,000 times on a sheet-fed offset press and then pour on and properly shape the clear plastic film that covers the picture with what amounts to a collection of lenses. The plastic lenses are so arranged that the viewer's left eye sees one of the serrated pictures, the right eye sees...
Quick to Cut. J. & L. has been quick to cut back production of low-profit types of steel and concentrate on such items as the sheet steel that prosperous automakers and appliance manufacturers buy in large quantities. It is also diversifying into the lucrative stainless-steel market, is just completing a mill in Louisville, Ohio, that will step up its stainless output by a third...
...West Germany's chief of personal security, responsible for the safety of Chancellors Adenauer and Erhard from 1960 until his arrest, fortnight ago, on charges of having participated in mass executions of Jews in the Ukraine in 1942 and 1943; by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in a Bonn prison cell. In hearings after his arrest and in letters he left behind, Peters repeatedly claimed innocence; state prosecutors have now marked the case "closed...
...most frequent student suggestion for improving the system was the elimination of the sign-in sheet, "since it serves no useful purpose and is a nuisance." A majority of freshmen also blasted entry parties, calling them "too large for enjoyment and too noisy for non-participants...