Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castruccio's lunar power plant (which he calls an "electron farm") is nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...
...writes Harold on a sheet of yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms is black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
...have had registered 225,000 shares for its own account and its customers'. The buying had not only sent up the price but had put Marcus and associates in a strong position to squeeze the short sellers, who, knowing the actual value of Artloom from its balance sheet, had sold 35,900 shares of stock short, now had to pay high to cover their sales. (Delighted at the high price, four veteran officials up to last report had unloaded more than 11,000 shares...
Blank Checks. Founded in 1859, Spotting Life began as a weak weekly imitation of one of the world's most colorful journals: Bell's Life in London. Zesty Founder John Bell began covering bare-knuckle prizefights in 1822, expanded his sheet to cover London low life from society scandals to East End bloodlettings. In 1886 Sporting Life bought Bell's copyright and was in turn bought in 1920 by Odhams Press Ltd., publisher of the Laborite Daily Herald (circ. 1,640,707) Sunday People...
Tougher Steel. An alloy sheet steel that hardens in air instead of the usual salt or oil quenching baths and is six times tougher than automobile body metal was announced by U.S. Steel. Named Airsteel X-200, the steel was designed for rockets and missiles. It can be formed, welded, heated and cooled with less danger of distortion-producing stresses...