Word: stainless-steel
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Stenia was 23, but she had lived a lifetime of terror. She was a left-winger, a militiawoman, a veteran of the resistance and of Gestapo torture. The Nazis had knocked out two of her front teeth; now, when she smiled, she showed shiny, stainless-steel replacements...
...Stettinius era in U.S. Steel was a revolutionary period, although Stettinius himself played only a minor part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked...
...stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat...
...nation. But at some point the cumulative effect of the plant shutdowns would show. In Philadelphia the Defense Plant Corp. had spent a reported $16,000,000 to build an up-to-the-minute plant for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., to turn out an order for some 800 stainless-steel Army & Navy cargo planes. With only four planes built, the Services cancelled their contracts for all but 25. WPB talked of new make-work contracts for Budd, the WPB solution to the Brewster shutdown (TIME, June 12). As Budd began to lay off 2,000 workers, contracts were...
...Manhattan last week Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser announced a new acquisition in the East: Bristol, Pa.'s Fleet-wings Inc., stainless-steel plane builder, whose $50,000,000 backlog includes Army trainers, parts for other aircraft firms...