Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office in Gettysburg College's Glatfelter Hall. Seated in black leather chairs in a semicircle were seven top Republican congressional leaders headed by Big Bill Knowland, the Senate Minority Leader, and stormy-browed Joe Martin, the G.O.P. leader of the House. Facing them from behind a wooden, felt-topped desk was Dwight Eisenhower, ruddy, bright-eyed, and looking better than he has for weeks. Ostensible purpose of the meeting: resumption of Ike's weekly conferences with the G.O.P.'s congressional leadership...
...even in the interests of international cooperation, one problem bothered ICA: under Point Four requirements, each building must be marked with a suitable inscription showing that the structure was built by U.S. taxpayers. The customary brass (cost: $7) or wooden (cost: about $2) plaques would be too expensive to install on buildings that cost $15 apiece. Besides, said one ICA health official, "brass and wood plaques are used to dignify a structure. You can't do that with these buildings." Last week the problem was solved. The markers will be suitably inscribed in the floor section of the concrete...
...Rican. For one thing, he is a U.S. citizen by birth, though he may never get to know more than a word or two of English. He steps out of a plane at Idlewild with but a seven-hour journey behind him, and he can be back among his wooden shacks again next month or next day, if he has the $57.75 plane fare. In 1953, for example, 289,000 Puerto Ricans left their island and 213,000 were back within the same year...
...violin is a thin, hollow wooden box with a long neck, a body shaped like a figure eight, and a capacity for more subtlety of expression than any other orchestral instrument. It was perfected in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries by craftsmen of the Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri families. Others have been trying to duplicate their masterpieces of workmanship ever since...
...push for wood products, in an era of self-service selling, comes from U.S. industry's heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great is the demand for paper and fiberboard containers that many big manufacturers, e.g., Crown Zellerbach, have had to ration some products...