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...steel, the basic sinew of war, the U.S. had a capacity of 100,500,000 tons a year (about 12% more than World War II's peak), and was expanding by 9,500,000 more tons...
Your analysis of the public's sober mood about Korea [TIME, Aug. 14] is all bone and sinew, no fat. What's more, after much traveling lately, I feel sure it is in essence accurate. I think I detect in our country a fine latent dignity and seriousness which I was frankly not so sure of a few months...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...Columbia), a fair-to-middling melodrama about a pathological cripple, stars attractive Susan Peters playing her first part since she was crippled in an accident three years ago. As a scheming, power-mad young stepmother, she has quite a fat role, and deftly conceals its lack of genuine sinew behind her intense acting...
...composing rooms all over the U.S., printers sat on sawed-off chairs before tinkling linotype machines and spelled out the news: their A.F.L. International Typographical Union had just thundered its answer to the Taft-Hartley law. The act had outlawed the closed-shop agreements that were the bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would...