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...ionally made of strands of sheep gut wound together with strands of metal: steel, silver, or [[aluminium]]. There are also all-metal strings, but these are ...iable and often snapped during recitals; it wasn’t until the advent of all-steel E strings in the late nineteenth century that this problem was solved once

...al design, but sometimes using modern replacement parts, such as stainless steel, or plating parts that were originally not plated. At the extreme end of re

...cks quickly evolved into a fairly standard form in which the cast iron and steel frameworks supporting the bookshelves also supported the floors, which ofte

...bit and realised that we also need to factor in the material of the axe--[[steel]]? [[iron]]? Some kind of [[alloy]]? And, experimentally, one would also ne

...national security. Roosevelt used the act to embargo aviation fuel, scrap steel, and other materials to Japan. ...in control of the oil-rich [[Dutch East Indies]]) stopped selling oil and steel to Japan. This was the "ABCD encirclement" (American-British-Chinese-Dutch

...urvived the impact of the huge aircraft, but the burning fuel weakened the steel support systems, and both collapsed straight down, leaving a gigantic hole

...n he was financially strapped; he even briefly working for her father in a steel factory. Maureen Plant traveled only once with the band, on their 1969 US s

...ures were replaced by modern five- and six-story buildings of concrete and steel in the European style. Motorways were built. The first underground subway s

...al confidence is expressed in the statement that the strength of a type of steel will not fall below a stated level, that degree of confidence may apply on

* Bond Horace M. ''Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel.'' (1939).

...apacity of 3.3 million tons a year required 2.4 million tons of structural steel and 7.5 million man-days of labour; Britain brought in all its oil from Ira

...ated 1,840 feet above and approximately 500 feet south of the Mitsubishi Steel and Armament Works.

...iling cabinet, which has had a bracket welded to each drawer, and a strong steel bar run through the brackets and secured with a combination padlock.

Most modern acupuncturists use fine, disposable stainless steel needles (of diameter 0.18-0.51 mm), sterilized with [[ethylene oxide]] or b

...s were heavily circumscribed by McKeesport's "booze interest" and iron and steel bosses. Swedes dominated the prohibition movement in the town, but this did

...ed 90 antitrust suits, including one against the largest corporation, U.S. Steel, for an acquisition that Roosevelt had personally approved. Consequently, T ...y that did support the Progressive party, whether ... the Sugar Trust, the Steel Trust, the Harvester Trust, the Standard Oil Trust, the Tobacco Trust, or a

..., the science of plants began.<ref>see [[Jared Diamond]] 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' (1997) ISBN 0-393-31755-2</ref>

...barrels loaded with oil via boxcars was not cost-effective, and developed steel cylindrical tank cars capable of transporting bulk liquids virtually anywhe

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...m to relive their youth in the days of sailing ships. All major navies had steel fleets before the U.S., which started catching up around 1890.