Word: seamlessness
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...Government does not always practice what it -preaches. Buried deep in the budget, and bypassed in a 42-word, offhand way by Finance Minister James L. Ilsley in his recent budget speech (not of "major importance," said he), was a new 20% tariff wall-increased from 5%-on seamless-steel boiler tubing...
...effect, it was imposed solely against the half dozen or so U.S. tube companies which sent $2,414,000 worth of seamless tubing into Canada last year. Because of Empire preferences, British tube exporters would be exempt...
Somewhat oversimplified in Architect Wright's description-a "steel basket shot with concrete"-the outer covering of the building will be winding bands of seamless concrete and glass, rising 100 ft. At the top, the structure will project 24 ft. beyond the ground level building-line. The interior of this huge upended cone will consist of a continuous, gradually rising, gradually widening, ramp picture-gallery ¾ of a mile long. A great glass dome will top the last wide spiral sweep...
...Augusta Treverorum, in 14 B.C. by the Emperor Augustus, became the chief city of the Gallic tribe of Treveri. Because of its strategic location, Diocletian made Augusta Treverorum an important provincial capital. Constantine the Great beautified it. His mother, Empress Saint Helena, presented it with the "Holy Coat" or Seamless Tunic of Christ, which remains to this day the chief treasure of Trier's 4th Century cathedral. On the other hand, Trier is also the birthplace of Karl Marx. The Nazis set up a printing establishment in his house, then Allied bombs destroyed...
Romantic notes: Bob Sherwood still writing nasty notes to that chamber maid about misplacing his unmentionables. But there's nothing real between them, cause he really has a "one and only", in New York of all places. The Lima Bean girl at Cowie has promised Oliver Wilson a seamless nylon hairnet for his unruly locks. Because Mrs. Betey Brown says we shouldn't, and we're mad at her because she won't guest-write our column even once, we will say that Wally Notter's daughter looks too bee-eutiful for to be a boy, although...