Word: steels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late one night last week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket...
...made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...Steel...
...value of petroleum products made from gas as they come from the cycling plants and not on the lower value of gas at the well. The danger of this precedent, said Treasury, is that the allowances could be carried to ridiculous extremes, with claims being allowed for structural steel, ceramics, pig aluminum, etc. The allowance on two tons of iron ore is $2.40, said Treasury, but would jump to $44.25 if computed on the value of steel bolts made from the ore. The Treasury already stands to lose $297 million in claims for rebates now being asked for in court...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tom Ewell and June Lockhart in an amiable trifle about a salesman who finds that love and education can go together...