Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Library officials had suspected the man for some time, and his stack pass had been revoked. Metcalf had permitted the man to go unapprehended when he promised to aid in the return of the stolen merchandise...
...Salesman. Whatever he represents to his vast audience, Godfrey is a mile-high stack of blue chips to CBS, to his sponsors and to their advertising agencies. Though admen may wince at a typical Godfrey commercial (plugging a shampoo made of eggs and milk, he cracked: "And if your hair is clean, it makes a fine omelet"), they admit he makes products move...
Open-hearth furnaces melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process...
...envelope were 43 typed copies of State Department documents and four memoranda in Alger Hiss's handwriting. Several nights later, from a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm where he had hidden them, Chambers produced five rolls of microfilm. When developed, they produced a three-ft. stack of highly confidential Government dispatches which Chambers said Hiss had given...
...major headache, book pilfering, has plagued the Lamont open stack system in its infancy. McNiff groups three offenses under pilfering: book hiding, book hoarding, and book theft. Officials spotted an instance of the last misdemeanor the week before Christmas vacation, and the Dean's Office severed the connections of the two students apprehended...