Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dedication Day the temperature stood at 110° in the shade-and all the shade the crowd had was a few parasols and newspapers. Visiting bigwigs including Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug and Governor Roy Turner-were little better off under the sheet-iron roofing of their bunting-decked stand...
...their factories to make what improvements they could. Another snag was the shortage of raw materials. Those who tried to supply them got no help from SCAP. Example: Gordon Behr, of Los Angeles' Yaras & Co., offered to ship enough coal from the U.S. to assure production of some sheet steel his company wanted to order. But SCAP, constrained by the needs of the still shaky occupation economy, refused to guarantee that the coal would not be used for some other purpose...
Union. The persistent shortage of steel prompted 25 small steel-using manufacturers to chip in about $4,000,000 for a steel mill of their own in Phoenixville, Pa. This Phoenix-Apollo Steel Co. had also bought an Apollo (Pa.) sheet mill to process the ingots from Phoenixville. The manufacturers, whose plants are scattered from New England to the Midwest, expect that production will be more than enough to keep all of them operating at capacity...
...possibilities. While looking at a map which had lines representing the intensity of the earth's magnetism, he noted that the lines were crossed at varying angles by the parallels of latitude. The two sets of lines formed an irregular grid, something like the crossing lines on a sheet of graph paper. Used together, the lines served as a "frame of reference." If pigeons, he reasoned, are sensitive to some factor connected with the lines of latitude, they have all they need to find their way home. Steering by a latitude-magnetism frame of reference, they would navigate almost...
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., with the usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before...