Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That left Claxton to do the honors, and he had an unhappy time. In mid-speech, a gust of wind ripped away the sheet that veiled the plaque, wrapped it around the master of ceremonies. After this diversion, Claxton ran afoul of a rain squall that sent most of his audience scurrying. He still had five minutes to go, and he went right on talking...
Walk Together. Messrs. Styne & Cahn are, after Rodgers & Hammerstein, perhaps the most successful songwriting team on Tin Pan Alley. In the seven years they have been partners, they have writ ten 150 songs together, sold 6,000,000 copies of sheet music, made the hit parade two dozen times and first place nine times (among their hits: I'll Walk Alone; It's Been a Long, Long Time; Give Me Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with...
...Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...kind of studied coyness and poeticism occasionally flaws a prose that is otherwise like a sheet of plate glass. But the two longest pieces (the title story and one called The Child Is the Meaning...
Strategic Surrender. Then U.S. Steel Corp. made a surprise announcement: with "no recourse other than to comply," it too would switch to an f.o.b. system. Bethlehem Steel Corp., Wheeling Steel Corp., and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. promptly followed suit, signaling an industry-wide changeover...