Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major groups are together again, forming giant corporations. The three biggest-Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo-already account for well over 35% of Japan's total commercial and industrial business. Mitsubishi controls 22 major firms with 189 subsidiaries, produces 37% of Japan's ship tonnage, 57% of its sheet glass, 20% of its electrical machinery. Profits before taxes last year: $77.5 million, on sales of $2.3 billion, plus banking and insurance operations. Rival Mitsui, which reported $2.8 billion in sales and $85 million in profits in 1957, controls 24 major firms with 195 important subsidiaries, produces 25% of Japan...
...after he graduated from Dartmouth, Joe Butler III followed his steel-baron grandfather and his father Henry A. Butler into management work at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Later he worked for a while in the family brokerage firm. But when his father died, Joe took on museum directing as well as brokering. It was too much. Forced to decide between them, he chose to be director of the Butler Institute of American...
...Tatum plan for Neurospora was to try to create strains that differ from the normal mold in simple, chemical ways. Their method was simple, too. They irradiated mold with X rays to induce mutations. Then they gathered spores formed by sexual reproduction and laid them out on a sheet of agar jelly containing the minimum nutrients that natural wild mold requires. Some of the spores sprouted and grew normally, showing that they had not been mutated in any obvious way. Some were dead, perhaps mutated too much...
...nation's biggest steelmakers seemed in no rush to hike prices. U.S. Steel said only that it was "studying" Alan Wood's move: so were Bethlehem Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Armco Steel and Jones & Laughlin, which added that it would not raise prices until U.S. Steel took the lead. Said Big Steel's Chairman Roger M. Blough: "Our immediate conclusion is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation is clarified." When that might be, added Blough: "We cannot forecast." But for years, steel prices have climbed, along with boosts in minimum wages (see chart...
During the summer, however, this sheet, which has spent 85 years satisfying those in Cambridge who eat breakfast, retires in favor of a journal known as the Harvard Summer News, called by those who love it Cambridge's Only Breakfast-Table Weekly...