Word: wringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with most of Ives's music, his Fourth Symphony is sprinkled with snatches of religious, patriotic and folk tunes popular at the turn of the century. But once shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with...
Even more than other big aluminum makers, Alcoa needs new customers. Confronted since 1957 by industry overexpansion, sagging prices for ingots and cutthroat competition in the less profitable fabricating field, it has lost part of its share of the market to new companies, has also been through a profit wringer. From a peak of $89.6 million in 1956, Alcoa's net income slid to $40 million in 1960. It has not yet fully recovered, though last year's earnings of $60.8 million (on a record $1 billion in sales) were the best since 1957, and first-quarter sales...
...Bowie seven pages earlier speaking fluidly if gravely about the "general lowering of trade barriers among the advanced nations" and "transitional and ad hoc palliatives, global commodity arrangements, etc." for those less advanced. Similar things happen to Assistant Secretary Nitze, who sounds after one has gone through Hoffmann's wringer disproportionately concerned with maintaining a "unity of command" over N.A.T.O.'s nuclear forces even when the issue may widen political rifts. And Zeckhauser's piece on trade seems to consider all the future in the hands of economic experts concerned only with economic integration...
Nobody went through the window, and few really went through the wringer. But the convulsion that swept the stock market cost millions of Americans dear in anticipated profits, and particularly the amateurs among "small investors" who put their money into the market at or near its peak and sold out at last week's low. Not since the dread year of 1929 had trading been so heavy (average daily volume: 10,000,000 shares) or the ticker tape lagged so late. Before the week was over, delays of an hour or more in the tape became routine...
Fact Man. Candidate Glenn and 510 others were run through a wringer of mental and physical tests. Doctors charted their brain waves, skewered their hands with electrodes to pick up the electrical impulses that would tell how quickly their muscles responded to nerve stimulation. Glenn held up tenaciously under tests of heat and vibration, did especially well with problems of logical reasoning. Says Dr. Stanley White, a Project Mercury physician: "Glenn is a guy who lives by facts...