Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been heavy; in one year the net working capital of U.S. roads has dropped $450 million to $705,013,000, a 39% decline. But the return has been worth the price. Though passenger traffic is off as much as 50% from its wartime peak, many streamliners are booked solid. In twelve months the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans grossed its $4,000,000 construction cost; with its sister streamliner, the Land 0' Corn, it had doubled Central's passenger revenues. The gleaming new Pullmans of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.'s Texas...
...into their hands. One rule permitted a "simple majority of those present" of the party's national committee to carry on the party's business. Where two or three were gathered together, that would be enough. This was a hoary Communist device, designed to give the leftists solid control of the party. The rules were gaveled through by Convention Chairman Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electric Workers, and round-faced puppet of the U.E.W.'s real bosses, Communist-line Julius Emspak and James Matles...
...intoxicated Transcendentalists, fire-eating and angular Abolitionists, chest-heaving Fourierists, nutty nudists, and somber lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...
Matthew Fox has a solid reputation as an expert kibitzer and operator, with an inordinately sharp eye for a fast buck. A movie man by trade, he has backed such side bets as Bub-0-Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then...
...research, H. A. Brassert Co. of New York City came up with a new trick in reducing ore to iron. By using anthracite instead of coke, Brassert can produce pure melting stock at $21 to $26 a ton (current average cost: $40); from the waste gas Brassert will make solid CO² (Dry Ice) at $15 a ton (present retail price: $35 to $65). In a new $1,250,000 iron-ice plant at New York, Brassert hopes to make enough the first year to pay off half the construction cost...