Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same room with his development team, consisting of five designers and 16 engineers. The trick was to do the job on a shoestring. The team found a way to revamp the dies from last year's models, use them to stamp the new car's sheet metal; all parts were bolted together instead of expensively welded; front and rear bumpers were made identical; the front sheet metal assembly was reduced to six pieces. In seven months the Lark was ready. Total development cost: less than $3,000,000, v. an estimated $150 million for the 1959 Ford...
...depends on the poet's typewriter; if he studied printing, and that would be a very good place for The Advocate to start, he would learn that the poems of Identity are not typed by each poet's own machine, but rather, by the people who put out the sheet. He blames the CRIMSON for censuring the "little" magazines, "simply by reason of their appearance." A quick check through our files reveals the "little magazines" around the Square have a pretty good critical win-loss record, a better batting average, indeed, than some people feel they should have. Finally Edmunds...
...mark of Zorro, hearts, and initials from most of the neighborhood children. Any mother can raise biscuits, but how many can raise welts on demand? Perhaps you could find a use for this talent? If I were still in school I'd make a terrific walking crib sheet...
...only other portion of the library accessible to the casual visitor is a series of rooms displaying samples from Houghton's unmatched theater collection. "Playbills, posters, prints, photographs, pamphlets, broadsides, sheet music, letters, documents, clippings"--everything pertaining to the theater in any form fills the theater section of the Houghton stacks. Old poster and playbills of Kean and Booth, the playbill for the Ford theater on the night of Lincoln's assassination, are some notable examples. One piece, P.T. Barnum's first advertisement, tells of his original sideshow: "Joice Heth . . . born on the island of Madagascar on the coast...
Bethlehem has dropped its plan to merge with Youngstown Sheet and Tube because of the trustbusters' opposition (TIME, Dec. 1). But it still hopes to compete harder in the Midwest market, possibly by building a plant on its 3,500-acre tract near Gary...