Word: alloy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improvement on Miss England in which he beat Garfield A. Wood in Miami last year. Miss England II was de-signed by F. Cooper and built by Saunders Roe, Ltd., of Cowes. She had two Rolls-Royce engines of 2,000 h. p. each, made of a new aluminum alloy called hiduminium. "Well, now for it," said Segrave. "She's chewed up three propellers. I'm trying a bronze...
...results of the chemical analysis show 17.42 per cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads. An idea of the toughness may be obtained from the fact that it took fully two hours of sawing and more than a dozen hacksaw blades to saw off a piece with a surface of only two inches...
...Bucharest last week. The portraits (see cut) are being struck by the British Royal Mint, 5 million on Rumanian 20-lei (12?) pieces and 60 million on 5-lei (3?) coins, all of a base metal which the governments concerned refuse to describe more fully than as a "new alloy...
...Rustless Steel" upon all exposed shining parts.* Another car to adopt a similar metal is Pierce-Arrow, using it on all nuts and bolts and many driving parts. Because not many steel companies possess Rustless Steel patents and equipment, the new demand caused great activity among those few. Central Alloy, for example, which together with Ludlum and Crucible shares the Krupp Stainless Steel patents, reported last week that this division was 14 weeks behind schedule...