Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climax of Where We Stand, a special 90-minute report comparing U.S. and Soviet strength. The show was the idea of President Stanton, and its content took added weight from his role as one of the shapers of the open-secret Gaither Report. To strike the "complete balance sheet" that Stanton ordered, the network news staff labored for three months over documents, interviews and film...
...papers agreed to run the form for ten days. In the first two days, a dozen entries arrived addressed to "Secret Witness, Post Office Box 654, Clarksburg," i.e., the police. Some of them listed "reasons" in such detail that they required an extra sheet of paper. Said Sergeant Walter L. Pike, in charge of the investigation: "We'll get around to every...
...notable example is steel, which is learning to operate like a short-order restaurant. Not since 1942 have users ordered steel on such short lead times: six weeks for heavy construction beams, two weeks for sheet metal for automobiles. In turn, steelmen were producing just enough to meet delivery schedules. They were well aware that any sudden economic upturn would not catch them without production capacity. But it could catch customers short on steel. As long as customers continue to buy only for immediate needs, steel may not rise above 75% of rated capacity before June, but the industry expects...
...work. Fiat agreed to yield its share of the contract to Innocenti in return for a 2% commission on Innocenti's net profit. Last week 100 Innocenti engineers were at work on the millsite in Venezuela, and the scooterman's machine-tool plant was busy producing steel sheet-rolling equipment...
...suspense this situation generates is impressive. Beaten, starved, baked in a sheet-iron oven-how can the colonel possibly hold out? But he does. Backed by bayonets, stiffened by his code-how can Saito possibly give in? But he does. The British troops so successfully sabotage the bridge they are supposed to build that Saito is forced to ask the colonel's help, and to capitulate to his terms...