Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stabbed him with stainless steel...
...years ago railroad enthusiasts across the nation were shocked to learn that Lucius Beebe '27 had sold his vintage private railroad car, The Gold Coast, and replaced it with a brand new pullman constructed entirely of stainless steel and plate glass, and possessed of no historical merit whatsoever...
...meal was cooked right on the table, on a small, single-burner hot plate made of stainless steel. The girl deposited a frying pan on the burner, dumped in several pounds of chicken fat, covered the chicken fat with a mixture of chopped herbs, and proceeded to pour on a thick, sordid potion...
Five gleaming stainless steel fifty gallon vats bubble soup and stewing tongues; rows of spotless oak cutting boards hold heaps of fresh vegetables ready for processing; seven yards of jet griddle await the thousands of hot dogs sleeping for the moment beside legs of lamb, bacon, and hams in the clean coolness of mammoth refrigerators. The Central Kitchen rests like a well-bathed giant, poised to galvanize its members into action...
...time is the near future; the place, the U.S.; the heroine, beautiful Dagny Taggart, a stainless-steel executive who runs a transcontinental railroad with the same chilling efficiency she displays in bed with various deserving tycoons. But dauntless Dagny is having troubles. Her railroad keeps breaking down. The best businessmen begin to vanish mysteriously. Oilfields flame in the night, copper mines are destroyed, docks blow skyhigh, steel mills collapse in chaos. Finally Dagny catches on: her fellow capitalists have gone on strike...