Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though the industry had declared that the boost would not affect finished steel, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...
...fewer than five clubs had gone in for a touch of Minsky. In place of swing bands they had installed knockabout comedians in baggy pants, and strip-teasers in net brassieres. The town hadn't seen so many strippers since 1942, when Fiorello LaGuardia sent them packing...
Saber practice on the 40-by-6 foot regulation strip is supplemented by slashing at a sword-wielding canvas dummy, while epee and foilmen glean their largest off-strip brushups by lunging at quarter-inch targets taped on the wall...
This time Pauna had a more celebrated visitor: the governor of the department, Don José María Villarreal himself. He came for the dedication of a new highway strip. The day was hot, and after lunch the governor and his aides went down to the river, below the bridge, to bathe. Hundreds of villagers gathered to see His Excellency in a bathing suit. For a better view, at least 200 of them crowded onto the bridge, 45 feet above the rushing stream...
...survive, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has had to make a few bourgeois compromises. It has added a horserace handicapper, a crossword puzzle, a gossip columnist, and comic strips-The Nebbs, Gene Byrnes's Reg'lar Fellers, and Gluyas Williams' gentle panels on suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with...