Word: alloy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this razzle-dazzle fashion, American Safety Razor Corp.'s showman President Milton Dammann introduced a smooth-shaving new razor blade called Silver Star, made of a new metal called "Duridium" (a hard-alloy steel). With it, Dammann was out to crowd Gillette's famed Blue Blade out of the No. 1 spot in the blade market. Dammann planned to spend $2,000,000 on the promotion campaign because his company needed that kind of boost. In this year's first quarter its profits had dropped from...
...part of the deal, Alcoa agreed to let the rest of the industry use its alloy patents and several of its most important fabricating patents without charge. WAA thought that this put the industry on a competitive footing. But the Justice Department's trustbusters hit the ceiling...
Gruff, honest Bridgman assigned Robert to a project involving a copper-nickel alloy. Oppenheimer built a furnace, made his alloy, completed the study with sufficient precision for Bridgman to publish the findings. Says Bridgman: "A very intelligent student. He knew enough to ask questions." After hours, at the Bridgman home, the conversation ranged far & wide, giving Oppenheimer chances to display his often irritating erudition. Once Bridgman identified a picture as a temple at Segesta, Sicily, built about 400 B.C. Young Oppenheimer quickly set his professor straight: "I judge from the capitals on the columns that it was built about...
Peter Grahame Fletcher, an old Dover College boy, had spent his U.S. year at New Jersey's Peddie School. He preferred the English scheme of sorting the bright boys and the bumbleheads into separate forms to the American method of lumping them into an "intellectually mediocre" alloy. Fletcher considered his history teachers at Peddie too insistent on their own nationalistic opinions. ("At Dover, my history master told us to find out for ourselves who was right and who was wrong.") Charles Frederick Kinnard Dunn, who had gone from Eastbourne College to Pennsylvania's rich Hill School, was also...
...matter what they did, producers could not satisfy the increased demand for almost all types of steel. Even alloy steels, relatively plentiful a few months ago, are again scarce. With current allocations calling for 6.2 million tons (out of 66 million tons annual production) the pinch will become painful about November. How much tighter would it get? Some estimates, including ECA needs and other export requirements, put the total set aside at 16 million tons. If so, production of such consumer goods as autos and refrigerators would probably have...