Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Armco Steel Corp., silver-haired, silver-tongued Robert A. Solborg, 57, has learned to speak eleven foreign languages. Last week Solborg signed three contracts that made good reading in any language. The biggest deal called for Armco to supervise construction and operation of Italy's first continuous strip rolling mill, at the Cornigliano steel plant near Genoa. The mill, which will cost $87 million, will be financed by ECA (32%) and the Italian government, and is one of the first joint attempts by ECA and U.S. private enterprise to help Europe's steel industry...
...There was not much argument over the facts. A hooded mob of Ku Kluxers planted a flaming cross in the front yard of Mrs. Mamie Clay, broke up a neighborhood party and then hauled seven Negroes off to a nearby schoolyard. There, one by one, they were ordered to strip off their trousers, were thrown to the ground and lashed with a wide leather strap...
...Continent. Warming to his subject, he told just how the U.S. might attack the U.S.S.R. All that is necessary, he said, is to explode large hydrogen bombs on a line extending north & south across Europe. The radioactivity "would be carried eastward by the winds, destroying all life within a strip 1,500 miles wide, extending from Leningrad to Odessa, and 3,000 miles deep, extending from Prague to the Ural Mountains...
...Capp, creater of L'il Abner, the Schmoo, the Kigmy, and other comic strip prodigies, may appear at the Freshman Smoker tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre...
...soon as he became governor in 1946, had licked them to a standstill ever since. He had outraged Grundymen by insisting that manufacturers purify or divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...