Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intimates-resurrected an old bronze statue of a bull. It had been in one of Dee-Dee's barns.She had it dragged out and set up among the fauns and iron deer on her Somerville, N.J. estate. It was a sentimental gesture. The bull was the metal incarnation of the animal on the old Bull Durham tobacco label-almost the coat-of-arms of Dee-Dee's father, James Buchanan Duke, founder of the American Tobacco Co., who had died in 1925, leaving Dee-Dee $53 million...
...beginning to learn some basic facts about how cancer cells differ from normal ones. In cancer, normal cells suddenly turn aggressive and invade normal tissues like voracious animals. Cancer experts know that cancers can be induced by certain chemicals, by hormones, by X rays, by nuclear radiation, by metal dusts, tobacco, or even the sun's ultraviolet rays...
...Since January, planemakers have turned out only 145 multi-engined transports for the airlines and the saturation point is already at hand. To keep their heads above water, manufacturers have switched to new sidelines. Douglas is now making aluminum dinghies as well as bomber frames. Bell has gone into metal furniture and gasoline engines; Curtiss-Wright turns out textile spindles and film projectors. Even those companies still making money are having trouble keeping skilled labor crews and engineering staffs together, are trimming their sails for the day when present backlogs...
...sight. Wholesale prices (including farm products) pushed up for the fourth successive week. The Agriculture Department took back a previous prediction that food prices might ease off toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since steel prices lifted...
Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp., with the usual blare of trumpets that accompanies any move of the Kaiser enterprises, lowered the price of sheet aluminum to 21$ a lb., "approximately 15% below anything ever produced for sheet metal fabricators." The same day, the Reynolds Metals Co., whose president, Richard S. Reynolds, got into aluminum by making foil wrappers for his uncle's tobacco products, announced price reductions averaging 20% on aluminum building materials, such as shingles, clapboard siding, roofing and ceiling panels. Only the Aluminum Co. of America, which had the aluminum business to itself before...