Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be boys, and then take up several committee chairmanships won by the uphill fight of loyal and progressive Democrats." In Washington, Democratic Leader J. Howard McGrath gingerly refused to pick up Mrs. Roosevelt's hot potato. Most of the Dixiecrats were discreetly silent. In Manhattan, the trade sheet, Variety, printed a flattering review of the show: " [Mrs. Roosevelt] ranks with the standout commentators on the air ... She displays more courage and is more positive than most of the others put together. The surprising question is why ABC chose to spotlight this commentary...
...food front, the tally sheet shows a fine selection for the discriminating. The Locke Ober Cafe, although probably packed to the last table tomorrow night, is one of the best known of Boston dining places. If you care to climb a flight of stairs and push a bit for a good steak, Durgin Park is the place...
Today Faneuil Hall is still a market--on Saturday evenings Dock Square is a frenzy of buying and selling, pushcarts laden with produce, chatter in half a dozen tongues. And looking down from its perch high above the Tower squats the huge grasshopper weather-vane. Hammered from sheet copper in 1742 by Deacon Shem Drowne, this grasshopper has sat atop Faneuil Hall for 200 years. In the earthquake of 1775 it fell to the street and suffered a broken leg, but was run up again as fast as it could be repaired...
Western Steel. In Pittsburg, Calif., Columbia Steel Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary, opened a new $25 million sheet and tin-plate plant which will add 325,000 tons a year to West Coast steel capacity. Columbia will also get a new president, Alden G. Roach, 47, who had joined Big Steel when it bought his Consolidated Steel Corp. Ltd. (TIME, June...
Where was the steel going? After investigating the problem for nine months, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works gave part of the answer last week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...