Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...annual capacity of 555,000 tons. When these are completed in four years, work will begin on the next phase-an iron-reduction and steelmaking plant that will be operation al by 1976. The site for the complex will be the southern port of Kaohsiung into which will flow slab and billet for the first stage and, later, iron ore from Australia to produce the finished steel...
Like Galileo. It is probably unfair to quote a slab of his prose to show what is unsatisfactory about his work; to quote anything less is even more unfair because his prose comes in great untrimmed slabs. Sample: "But the mysterious beautiful thing of going to sea occurred that night: just a few hours after all that junk of bars, fighting, streets, subways, boom, there I am standing by the whipping shrouds and snapping lines in the Atlantic Ocean in the night off New Jersey, we're sailing south to Norfolk to load on for Italy, everything is washed...
...Mark I, which in 1959, along with the Olivetti typewriter and Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, was voted one of the ten best designs of modern times, sold only 5,300 after Edsel Ford introduced it in 1939. The Mark II, which featured simply sculptured "slab sides" instead of the chrome that was the rage in Detroit in 1956, sold 3,000 over a two-year life span. But Ford estimates that 15,000 Mark IIIs will be sold in the car's first year. Beautiful people have begun to buy beautiful Mark IIIs even before...
...Christmas season, before long, some inventive publisher will simply order up a six-foot-long slab of a book and put legs on it. That will solve the problem of what to do with coffee-table volumes. They are just as massive as ever this year, and a little more expensive. Still, the shopper who cannot content himself with giving just a good novel, biography or history (heretical thought!) will find an imposing selection of Christmas books that are as satisfying to read as they are to look through. Among the best...
...Roman cops were not so sure. When the visitors, lacking a table to sign papers on, began moving a heavy stone slab around to make do, a dozen carabinieri came on the run to halt what looked like desecration of a national monument. When the sideshow ended at last, "the Greatest Show on Earth" passed to its new owners...