Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble recognizing the photostats as the same ones Fisher has been passing around. Exploded Capp: "These are forgeries . . . We conducted an investigation of the source of the forgeries. We are in the last stage of finding the forger." Furthermore, the exhibits were not taken from his newspaper strip, but from comic books over which he had no control...
...spoke, too. The Columbia network had been "frozen out" of Boston in 1948, and it made a heart-rending plea to the FCC for a chance at the huge profits of a regular VHF channel in Boston. One of Columbia's public-spirited suggestions was to strip Providence of one of its two TV stations: another proposal would have relegated the Boston educational channel to an unusable UHF range...
...streetcar to go to the parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished and brutally garroted with a piece of cord and a strip of her petticoat, was found in the basement of the factory. Blood matted her hair and her face was swollen and grimy...
Punch, the London humor magazine, recently suggested as a solution to the problem of selecting atomic armor that one could "take an American football uniform, and strip off the non-essentials...
...economy helped the rise, there was little doubt about the real reason for it: private capital. Held back when steel was nationalized, capital is once more flowing in to build new coke ovens, blast furnaces, rolling mills, etc. Now plans are under way to build one of the biggest strip mills in the world with a million-ton annual capacity at a cost of $280 million...