Word: sheeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homebound aboard the liner Aquitania in 1926, a group of British industrialists traveling together decided to merge four struggling chemical firms into a new company called Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. In a surprising departure from British formality, they scribbled out the new company's compact on a sheet of Cunard Line writing paper. Over the years since then I.C.I, has become Britain's Du Pont...
...feet away from the folksingers, a fine arts major sprawled out with a sheet of graph paper and his copy of introduction to Solid State Physics, and in the background a group of Eliot House jocks warmed up with a pigskin--in violation of Ivy League regulations--in preparation for next fall's defense of the House football title...
...Republic got up its nerve and announced increases similar to Wheeling's, but not identical. Again, all quiet. The following day, after two more companies joined the wary parade, giant U.S. Steel finally raised prices. Its increases were noticeably gentler than Wheeling's: $4 on hot-rolled sheet and strip (50? less than the other companies), $5 on cold-rolled sheet and strip, $7 on galvanized sheet ($1 less than Wheeling), and nothing at all on plates (Wheeling and others had posted a $4.50 boost...
These neglected masterpieces, along with a fresh stock of non-fiction books, will be available when the doors of the Parish House, First Unitarian Church, reopen at 10 a.m. today. Tomorrow, sheet music dating from the Civil War will be added to the stock. On Thursday, the sale closes with a half-price...
...lake remained until about a decade ago. But it lies athwart the north-south line between two of the nation's most superlative states: the boomingest-California-and the gamblingest-Nevada. And this has been all but the ruination of Mark Twain's "noble sheet of blue water...