Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offset process instead of conventional letterpress printing. The process uses no hot metal, no Linotype machines, no matrixes or engraved plates. Copy is typed on special typewriters that print "justified" lines, i.e., they fill out each line flush to the right-hand margin. Then it is pasted on a sheet, photographed and printed on an aluminum plate, much as a photographic negative is printed. Mounted on a press, the plate transfers the image to a hard rubber roller, then onto the newsprint. To start publishing, the Record spent less than $250,000 (including $140,000 for actual equipment) against...
Even in the winding-sheet prose of the Rev. Alban Butler, the saints' often wildly exciting lives and extravagant deaths provided the thriller reading for generations of 18th and 19th century Christians, who did not have the grotesqueries of horror comics and TV. A prodigiously diligent pillar of British Roman Catholicism, Hagiographer Butler labored on his lives for 30 years of spare time and published them anonymously in 1756. The present edition, drastically edited by the late Father Herbert Thurston, S.J. and British Author Donald Attwater, is virtually a new work, contains the lives of 2,565 saints...
FIRST STEEL TO RUSSIA since 1947 has been approved by Commerce Department. Shipment will total 7,800 short (2,000 Ibs.) tons of nonstrategic sheet steel valued at $1,100,000. Reds say they will use steel to make autos...
...having the original six dubbed in five other languages (French, German, Spanish, Polish, Arabic). Whatever the language or the nationality, Cash aims his shows at one man with three children and a modest education, who lives in a little house just outside London and is employed as a sheet-metal worker for an automobile company. He is Cash's brother. Whenever a sequence becomes too specialized or complicated, Cash briskly cuts it, explaining: "My brother wouldn't understand that...
...award had the jury stopped: an $800 prize donated by Rome's Obelisco Gallery for the "most nonconformist" work. After surveying the field (including a blank, punctured canvas and an 18-in.-square sheet of rusted metal punctured by 3-in. nails on which were impaled two pingpong balls), the international jury gave up, decided that the task of picking only one was impossible...