Word: webbings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's . . . progress ... is hobbled by a web of customs barriers interlaced with bilateral agreements, multilateral cartels, local shortages and economic monstrosities. How tragic! Free men, facing the specter of political bondage, are crippled by artificial bonds that they themselves have forged and they alone can loosen...
Wollweber graduated in the '30s to chief of the Comintern's western operations. Out of Copenhagen (where he operated from the same office building used by the Gestapo) he spun a web of sabotage. During the Spanish Civil War, his men concentrated on ships carrying supplies to Franco, sabotaged 21 German, Italian and Spanish ships. During World War II, his apparatus turned to Nazi installations in Norway and to materials that the Swedes were selling to the Germans. Under German pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually...
...posthumous novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, and a collection of short stories, The Hills Beyond...
William J. Fulton, publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick's New York correspondent who "investigated Harvard" earlier this spring, noted with alarm that the college in the "green, pine-dotted hill" was flying the United Nations flag "with its spider web map of the world on a blue background...
...laborious process of making steel pipe from solid blocks of metal. Shortly after, the company began turning steel sheets into 40-ft. tubes, which a flash-welding machine transformed into pipe in 30 seconds. As a result, Smith not only revolutionized the steel-pipe industry, but made possible the web of gas and oil pipelines covering the U.S., including World War II's Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines (built with A. O. Smith pipe). Some newer products: glass-insulated hot-water heaters for homes, steel-and-glass silos for farms which eliminate spoilage from mold...