Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financi...
...West Point a newsphotographer got four formidably newsworthy names into one neat package by rounding up a quartet of young cadets, posing them trim and scrubbed before a map of Africa...
...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...
These modest words were spoken last week by a modest man: trim, 6-ft., ruddy-cheeked Charles Cameron West, founder-owner of Wisconsin's booming Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., who loves to stride around in muddy shoes, greet workmen by their first names-and build anything that goes to sea. A shipbuilder for 42 of his 65 years, Charles West never broke a Kaiser record, never stole a Kaiser headline. Yet last week he had his own claim to fame as the only inland builder of intricate, tightly packed, oceangoing submarines, was doing so well he had orders for enough...
...other income to meet them, and could not liquidate his investments without loss. This means that no man who works for a living will get even moderately wealthy during the war. Out of the $25,000 must come State income taxes. Men used to high salaries will have to trim their sails quickly...