Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star Dust." There was a second flash and a third, and soon some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...
...outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo. One hundred miles of under-ice highway are now under construction...
...years ago, TIME'S Art Editor Alexander Eliot rolled a sheet of paper into his typewriter and carefully composed a memo to Senior Editor Edward Cerf. The memo developed an idea that Eliot had been trying out on his friends in the art world and his colleagues, including TIME Art Director Michael Phillips and myself. "We now have the opportunity," Eliot wrote, "of producing the first really handsome historical survey of American art ever published. The raw material for such a book is already ours." By raw material, Eliot meant an impressive collection of 1,069 color plates printed...
GLASS-INDUSTRY SLUMP is growing so acute (because of 200% jump in cut-rate imports since 1954) that prices of heavy sheet window glass and light picture-frame glass are being lowered 7% to 16%. Big companies, operating some plants at 50% to 75% capacity, are going along with cuts started by Libbey-Owens-Ford to match foreign prices, but complain that reductions are unrealistic because glass workers' wages will soon rise about 12? an hour...
...life he had stammered, but on this occasion there was no trace of it. When he took leave of two of his children and intimates, his courtesy won the admiration of his jailers, and when the exiled Prince of Wales (Charles II of the Restoration) sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father's life, and a similar document to Charles, the King tossed it into the fire. Always a religious man, he found comfort in the thought that he would soon be with Christ, and always a meticulous...