Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...firmly resolved "never to just go out there to Hollywood and cash in on my popularity and make money." The way Arthur Godfrey looks at it, at least at the moment, that would be unwholesome...
...private companies offered to lease the barge lines but made no bid for Inland's terminal facilities, would not promise to modernize its equipment. Secretary Sawyer turned the companies down. But still anxious to get the U.S. out of the barge business, he urged them to make a better offer...
Before dawn one day last week, a caravan of 31 shiny new cars rolled out of Los Angeles, heading east. Each car was a standard 1950 model; every major U.S. make except Buick and Pontiac was represented. The cars had been tuned to perfection (but'not souped up), for a grueling two-day, 750-mile test to see which car got the most mileage and efficiency from its fuel...
...method is not very different from the Bessemer process, which blows air upward through molten iron. But U.S. Steel says the new way is much better, producing superior steel from iron that the Bessemer process cannot handle easily. It works so fast that one 30-ton Turbo-Hearth can make more steel in a day than a 225-ton open-hearth furnace...
...Ages. From On the Hill, the first volume of new Masefield poems to appear since the war, the laureate's publishers have mercifully excluded their author's dutiful little odes to George VI, Franklin Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard...