Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ravishing beauties in Cairo's biggest air-conditioned department store stand behind counters loaded with perfumes, nylon stockings, leather goods, flashlights, cameras. Americans and Britons flock to Saint James's restaurant for thick, juicy steaks. Menus in all the best restaurants list hors d'oeuvres, fish, entrees, desserts and coffee, and most people order right down the list. Fashionables dine at the Continental Roof Garden, where Hekmet, the famed and sexy belly-dancer, excites the audience nightly...
...pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers' guns spat red and yellow flame. At four miles, the enemy anti-aircraft fire was thick and fierce. But the planes ignored the cruisers and flew on toward the carrier...
...Strip mills designed to make sheets ⅛ thick for Detroit have been converted to make 1¼-in. plate. This has upped plate capacity by more than half, from 8,400,000 tons to 13,200,000 tons. Plate has been and still is the worst bottleneck in the industry, for nearly 75% of the steel needed for ships is plate. > But many a layman overestimates the amount of steel needed in shipbuilding. A 10,000-ton vessel actually weighs about 4,000 tons—the 10,000-ton figure is its carrying capacity. The 8,000,000 tons of merchant...
...room where the two ex-friends now sat was the basement assembly hall in the grey stone and marble United Mine Workers' building in Washington. The audience: thick-skinned, well-fed members of Lewis' executive board and policy committee. Lewis had called them together to see the show...
...bottom was scraped off the pan in making pan gravy or a few toadstools were put into the Bordelaise sauce by mistake, but these accidents never detracted appreciably from the tastiness of the food. This week when many men have to pay as much as 90 cents for thick juicy steaks in Boston, they will wistfully contemplate the delicious meals they could get at Harvard for the same price. But the interests of health come first at Harvard. Besides, especially during examinations, it is an excellent idea to close the dining halls so that undergraduates can spend much of their...