Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Screen. In the last three years, the studios have slashed their contract lists from 900 to just over 300 people. At Fox, where production was cut by two-thirds, there was sometimes not even a fourth for bridge in the steam room. At mighty Metro, where production was halved, a whole wing was closed in the Thalberg (executive) building. Beverly Hills began to look like an abandoned anthill. All through the stylish canyons, For Sale signs sprouted. Hedy Lamarr set a fashion in elegant liquidation when she turned over her whole house to the auctioneer in June 1951. Everything went...
...able to produce atomic fuel, i.e., plutonium. But its main purpose will be the study of practical production of electric power. Liquid metal (probably sodium) circulating through the reactor will absorb the tremendous heat generated by atomic fission. Piped through a water boiler, the superheated metal will produce steam. The steam, in turn, will drive a conventional turbogenerator...
...roast of beef (frozen), which she feared might not be tender enough for the Foreign Minister's official dinner that night; in Jerusalem, Mistress Ben-Gurion summoned the sentry outside her home to help her tear the skin off a monster halibut (also frozen), which she wanted to steam with lemon sauce for the Secretary's lunch with the Premier next...
Students are still being inconvenienced relatively little. By Saturday, however, steam heat for the gymnasium had been...
...which says it spent $5,000,000 on color TV last year (and $20 million since 1940), has no intention of letting the steam fizzle out. It has sent its tricolor tube, along with manufacturing instructions, to 177 of the nation's television set and part makers. It is already producing tubes for experimental sets earmarked for selected viewers, expects to be turning them out at the rate of 2,000 a month by midsummer. RCA will soon ask FCC to approve its system. If it does, RCA thinks it can have color receivers on the market nine...