Word: raws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock, keeps its own president and vice president on the Patiño board of directors, was long a partner with Patiño in owning Williams, Harvey & Co. of Liverpool, world's largest tin smelters...
Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
...Assistant Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, now the department's acting head reported that a quarter-billion dollars was needed to stock the Army with raw materials, unproduced in the U. S., for war-time uses...
...London, the Diamond Syndicate, source of over 90% of all gem diamonds, announced that it would for the time being suspend all offers of raw diamonds to the trade.* Observers sensed, in last week's announcement, the wily hand of Solly Joel, London tycoon and onetime South African miner, potent in Syndicate circles...
...Santelli, a Hungarian who tells her that she is one of the great swordswomen and should forsake the stage. At 10:30 she writes letters, attends to odds & ends. From 11:30 to 3:30 she rehearses a new play. There is no time out for luncheon?she eats raw eggs and drinks coffee on the go. From 3:30 to 5:30 she rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going...