Word: steele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sandbags piled on a segment of sewer pipe. When a 1,200-pound dummy bomb (Germany has some real ones weighing 2,200 pounds) was dropped on this monument, the only thing which had to be replaced was Concrete, Ltd.'s concrete balls. Another picture showed upright tapered steel outhouses onto which a brick wall was toppled without so much as denting them. These shelters were labeled: ARP CONSOL-Suitable Shelter for Key Personnel. Non-key personnel are supposed to be hiding in cellars...
...Only sure, scientific method of determining whether an organ is cancerous is microscopic analysis. With a sharp, hollow steel needle a pathologist draws from a suspected growth a bit of living tissue, which is immediately frozen by a stream of carbon dioxide from a high-pressure tank. Then it is cut into thin sections and mounted on a microscope slide. The whole procedure takes only a few minutes, is usually performed while a patient lies on the operating table. If microscopic examination shows that the cells are malignant, a surgeon can start to operate at once...
...final try-outs for the Olympic ski-jumping team will be held at Berlin, New Hampshire on Sunday. A crowd of thirty thousand is expected to witness the jumping which will be from the world's highest steel tower. The winners will compete in the Olympic Games in Finland...
...Steel is the biggest unit in the biggest of U. S. producer-goods industries. Compared to a 1937 profit of $94,944,358, U. S. Steel had a 1938 deficit of $7,755,914 -despite a final-quarter pickup in operations which earned a profit...
First among last week's omens of better times was the news that steel operations reached a 1939 high of 53.4% of capacity and that U. S. Steel's January shipments were the largest in 15 months, with heavy steels rising in proportion to light...