Word: all-glass
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...French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...
...months without knowing just what goal they were working towards. Furthermore, Leon's order may not prove so tough. Stainless steel is not-as yet-on the list of verboten materials. Even if that is taken away, the automakers have plenty of substitutes. Ford has perfected an all-glass tail light; General Motors has some highly lustrous enamels; almost all makers have new decorative plastics. These should keep U.S. cars the flashiest in the world...
...Tempered glass is made from ordinary plate glass, which is first heated close to the melting point in an electric furnace, then abruptly chilled by blasts of air. The surface, cooling and contracting faster than the inside, becomes a stretched, flexible skin and the inside retains some elasticity because of compression by the skin. Libbey-Owens-Ford has installed under license the special electric furnaces in which tempered glass was first made in Europe. The glass must be cut to size before furnace treatment because after tempering it is crumbled by cutting tools. It can be finished in various colors...