Word: seamlessness
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...built up his firm by producing steel rails and the first seamless steel train tires for the railroads that were pushing across Europe and the American West. Krupp also turned out steel cannon, but for many years had little success in selling them until German militarists finally awoke to the fact that the new cannon were easier to load and more accurate and durable than the traditional bronze models. With Krupp cannon, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871. By 1887 Krupp had sold 24,567 big guns to 21 nations. Alfred Krupp became known in Essen...
...royal visitor in Saudi Arabia, Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi donned a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city...
...case, said Beth Steel, is that the two companies are more complementary, both by geography and by the products they make, than competitive. Bethlehem has plants on the east and west coasts, while Youngstown is concentrated in the Midwest. Youngstown produces many products that Bethlehem does not, e.g., seamless weld pipe, while Bethlehem manufactures steel types not made at all or in any large quantity by Youngstown, e.g., structural steels, rails, castings, stampings, machinery, freight cars, ships. The merger would permit product and geographic expansion that neither company could finance in the tight money market...
Died. James Hilton, 54, smoothly sentimental, bestselling, British-born novelist; of cancer; in Long Beach, Calif. A published novelist at 20, Hilton supported himself for eleven years as a lecturer at Cambridge, free-lance newspaper feature writer and book reviewer while he perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt...
...Technicolor is a little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...