Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Demand Is High. Inventory-trimming is most evident in industries where both demand and supply are high-steel, automobiles. The average lead time for steel-sheet deliveries last week was down to 30 days, a great deal shorter than a few months ago, and buyers could take their time about ordering, notably in the auto industry...
...lady then handed me a mimeographed biography which ended my questions. According to the dope sheet, she is 5' 5" and 113 lbs. But I assure you, she's not over 5' 3" and she weighs only 108. But she sure is cute...
...CRIMSON received the following letter dated February 4 and supposedly from a Harrison Smith, Hotel Suizo, Barcelona. It was headed "Clandestine Sheet of the Students of the University of Barcelona," and contained a terse note from the students to the effect that "the senders address is ficticious...
...Ohio is calling: Could Dr. King address the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter? The secretary flips through an engagement book: "I'm awfully sorry, but Dr. King is so terribly booked up now. Could he make it some time later on?" A Negro comes in with a crudely printed hate sheet he has found on the street, hands it to a secretary, who smiles wanly: "Just another one. We get these all the time." The telephone rings again. This time the United Press is calling from New York, wanting to know if it is true that the Negroes have placed...
...modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting...