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...requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster model, ten tons of molten stainless steel (temperature 3,000° F.) were poured. When the steel had cooled, four hundred gallons of ammonia and nitric acid, 3,000 gallons of boiling water, were sloshed over its surface to shine it. Said William H. Eisenman, secretary of the American Society for Metals: "It is easily the outstanding achievement of the decade in American foundry practice, probably an all-time high...
...Interesting to note that the tune on the back of the record, "One Evening in Havana" with its name changed to "One Morning in May," became one of Hoagy's most famous hits, rating a place with "Lazy Bones" and "Shoe Shine Boy" in the Decca album of his songs...
...want war. You loved peace, work and progress; but you were forced into a struggle in which you have done great deeds, deeds that will shine for centuries in the pages of history...
...glad to be heroes, glad, above all, to be where beer flowed free and there was no such thing as blackout. "Know what I'm going to do next?" exulted Quartermaster Cronin. "I'm going up to Times Square and just walk around and let the lights shine on me." Before the evening was over, Quartermaster Cronin did some shining of his own. With two pals he drifted into the bright Hollywood Restaurant, and soon, right in front of a flashlight camera, he had his chin chucked by a chorus girl till he glowed like Ambrose Light...
...called because he used to carry an umbrella rain or shine, hang it on the bar rail in Johnson's saloon, and stand innocently by while contractors dropped tribute into the folds...