Word: ajax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heliostat and focusing mirror he had been able to capture 3,000° of the sun's heat (TIME, Dec. 21). With gas, temperatures as high as 4,600° have been obtained, but they could not be maintained long. Last week Engineer Frank T. Chesnut of Ajax Electrothermic Corp. designed a furnace capable of 3,600°, with a controlled heat over a long period of 3,000°, and for the first time the action of such a temperature could be studied. Engineer Chesnut predicted that his furnace could be made still hotter under pressure...
After being reported missing off the coast of Maine on his 110-ft. yacht Ajax, Jabish Holmes Jr. of New York, grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast), turned up safely. His story: fishing seven miles off shore he and his friends had hooked a "700-lb." horse mackerel (tuna) which towed them far to sea, kept them up all night, then got away...