Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camp McCauley airstrip near Linz, Austria, a Russian two-engine light bomber bounced on to the field, overshot the strip and crumpled into a fence. Out climbed a handsome Soviet air force lieutenant, English grammar in hand. "I is Russian pilot," he said. "Where is Linz...
...movement that sounded like another stiff price boost in steel got started quietly last week. Blaming increases in the cost of processing, Detroit's Great Lakes Steel Corp. raised its "extra charges" (i.e., for size adjustments, heat treating, pickling, etc.) on hot-rolled sheet and strip steel by $3 to $15 a ton. Next day U.S. Steel boosted its prices on alloys, and Allegheny-Ludlum said that it would charge more for "several of our special grades...
Both Big Steel and Allegheny-Ludlum said that the bulk of their production would not be affected. But the boost in sheet and strip, which are used mainly in autos, refrigerators, washing machines and other such items, would certainly be painful to users. One bodymaker estimated that the cost of an auto made from steel bought from Great Lakes (which supplies about one-sixth of the industry's flat-rolled steel) would go up about...
Where was the steel going? After investigating the problem for nine months, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works gave part of the answer last week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...