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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The biggest forging press west of the Iron Curtain went into operation in an Aluminum Co. of America plant at Cleve land last week. Built by Mesta Machine Co. and operated by Alcoa under a lease, the giant, 50,000-ton press towers almost five stories in the air, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Heavy-Duty Work | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

The late, great Yachtbuilder Henry B. Nevins was never a man to cut corners. His City Island yard in New York City seasoned its own lumber, designed and machined its own fittings, fastened its spars together with glue made of sour cream, sometimes trimmed them to the correct balance by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: As Idle as a Painted Ship | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Last summer the Museum of Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

As big, tinseled and highly colored as Andersen's children's stories were simple, direct and unadorned, the picture is Veteran Producer Goldwyn's 88th film in 38 years of moviemaking. It is also his biggest and most expensive (109 shooting days, $4,000,000 budget) production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

When the U.S. Air Force began burrowing into the wreckage of German planes in 1942, it got a shock. Engine mounts, wing spars and other parts for the planes had not been made by slow machining or welding, as were those in U.S. planes. They had been quickly forged in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Secret Weapon | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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