Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Nova Scotia-born President Alison Cumming, 50, announced that the company will build a $4,500,000 glass and stainless-steel headquarters building in Toronto. Soon he plans to issue separate financial statements and common stock for sale to Canadian investors. Said President Cumming: "We want the public face of this company to be Canadian, and not something that's just for show...
...titanium struggled, stainless-steel alloys were being developed to approach it in heat resistance and strength-to-weight ratio. And titanium, at $18 a Ib. for the top alloys, cannot compete with the stronger stainless steels at $2 a Ib. The big hope for producers now is to lower the price radically, make titanium cheap enough for civilian uses...
...Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where...
Outboard Dugout. At a wharf in the Tutong River, a Dayak fisherman, the descendant of generations of headhunters, climbs into his primitive dugout canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters...
...wood-paneled colonial tea-and-dining room decorated with a ship model made of cloves; the waitresses wear 18th century costumes. One of the handsomest company rooms is at General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars...