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nut-foundry

old-fashioned slang A derogatory and offensive term for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum. "Nut" is a derogatory slang term meaning "a crazy person." My great aunt Lidia apparently got locked up in a nut-foundry when she was a teenager because she said she could commune with ghosts. I can't go to the police about it! They'd throw me in the nut-foundry if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.

nuthouse

old-fashioned slang A derogatory and offensive term for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum. "Nut" is a derogatory slang term meaning "a crazy person." My great aunt Lidia apparently got locked up in a nuthouse when she was a teenager because she said she could commune with ghosts. I can't go to the police about it! They'd throw me in the nuthouse if I came to them with such an unbelievable story.
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nuthouse

and nut factory and nut-foundry and nuthatch
n. an insane asylum. The teacher spent three years in the nuthouse. When did you get out of the nut factory?

nut-foundry

verb
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Alfred Spada, of the Schaumburg, Ill.-based American Foundry Society Marketing Division, sees steady-to-strong growth throughout the different segments of the foundry business.
Royer Foundry Systems, PO Box 1859, Kingston, PA, 18704 tel: 570/331-3479 fax:
Tim Strelitz, with California Metal-X, a Los Angeles-based brass and copper foundry, is more succinct when he says that the biggest problems confronting the nonferrous foundry business are the "excessive costs [and] outrageous lawsuits that manufacturers have to deal with."
Huff, FACT, Three Rivers, Michigan John McCutcheon, Neenah Foundry Company, Neenah, Wisconsin Jeff Bianco, Grede Foundries Iron Mountain Foundry, Kingsford, Michigan Godfrey Sergeant, Grede Foundries New Castle Foundry, New Castle, Indiana Mary Wolfe, Deeter Foundry, Lincoln, Nebraska
Dependable Foundry Equip Co, 12505 S W Herman Rd, PO Box 3210, Tualatin, OR, 97082-3210 tel: 503/692-5552 fax: 503/692-4477
Christopher Misterek Foundry Metallurgical Engineer John Deere Foundry
This in turn can send the foundry into the cash trap spiral where money goes into the business in the form of capital investment and cannot be recovered in the form of increased profits.
This reality suggests that a foundry sales effort focused on volume growth is wrongheaded.
The company's in-house automation staff utilizes the latest engineering and software technology to lead you through a design, simulation and implementation process Of determining what level of core automation is right for your foundry. --Laempe + Reich Ph: 205/655-2121 * Fax: 205/655-2123 www.laempe.com
Gaylord Foundry Equipment Inc, PC Box 1863, Independence, MO, 64055-0863
* the Casting Emission Reduction Program (CERP) has been testing HAP emissions from foundry products and processes for the past five years (see sidebar above);
Exhibit categories include foundry machinery and plant construction, casting machinery and equipment, melting processes, and molding and coremaking.
As the president of EBAA Iron Sales, Inc., an iron foundry based in Eastland, Texas, Jim Keffer is concerned about foreign competition and how his foundry will adapt to domestic quality standards such as the MACT standards regulating I-TAP emissions from iron and steel foundries.
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