Word: alloy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consumption. Production of U. S. tin is negligible; but this country consumed (1928) 81,516 tons, or more than half the world's consumption. Tin is used mostly in combination with other metals. Most famed union is the copper-tin alloy bronze, from which was fashioned the short sword of the Roman Legions. Varying proportions of copper and tin give gun metal, bell metal, babbitt metal and many another alloy, the greater the percentage of tin the harder being the resulting composition. A tin and lead alloy is solder. Greatest use of tin (35% of total) is the making...
...collector of books on sports and supports the Northfield Hunt Club. From faces, Broker Eaton likes to deduce character, studies physiognomies with attentive eye. Broker Eaton and his associates (loosely referred to as the "Eaton interests") have holdings in Republic Iron & Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Inland Steel, Central Alloy Steel & Otis Steel?a steel group with an aggregate ingot capacity equal to about 70% of U. S. Steel's output...
...Largest (3,000, 000-ton capacity); earned $10,-466.300 ($9.54 a share) in 1928. Jones & Laughlin. Fourth largest; closely held stock traded in over-the-counter market; estimated 1928 earnings $20 a share; operating in Pittsburgh area. Crucible Steel Co. Largest maker of crucible steel; important producer of electric alloy steel; 1928 net income $5,634,-000; per share, $7.06; operating chiefly in Pittsburgh area...
Copper, ancient of metals (its tin-alloy, bronze, having given its name to the prehistoric Bronze Age), opened the year 1929 in a flourishing, a prosperous condition...
...alloy, stainless, resistant to most acids, able to withstand 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, developed by Krupp...