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Steel was the key indicator, and its upward climb promised a renewal of public jousting over prices between the Administration and industry in general. Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked...
...strong are some of today's steel alloys that four one-inch-square bars will easily support the weight of a 125-ton jet airliner. Yet even the best of these metals will crack and shatter if they are subjected to much greater stress. Earlier this month, a research team at the University of California's Lawrence Radiation Laboratory announced development of a super steel alloy that will bear as much as 4 times more pressure than common structural steels without breaking...
...brainchild of Engineers Victor F. Zackay and Earl R. Parker, the new alloy is called TRIP (for transformation-induced plasticity) steel. In effect, it can be stretched like Silly Putty or molten glass 2½ to 4½ times as far as present-day high-strength steel without fracturing its molecular structure. More important, when TRIP steel eventually reaches the point of crack-inducing stress, a solid-state chemical reaction is triggered that blunts small cracks just as they begin, then fills them in to prevent major wounds. The chemical change precipitating this "self-healing" process takes place...
CALYPSO IN BRASS (RCA Victor). The Tijuana Brass burnished the sound of the Mexican mariachi band, and now Harry Belafonte has added the alloy to the music of the Caribbean. Belafonte's personal exuberance, however, triumph over the instrumentation. The accent in the album is definitely on calypso, as in Cocoanut Woman and The Naughty Little Flea...
...technicians, and some 12,000 workers on three shifts. Destined to be the most modern metalworks in all of Southeast Asia when completed in 1969, Thai Nguyen was already turning out 200,000 tons of cast iron, supplying 80% of North Viet Nam's iron and steel alloy needs. It also had a vital role in Hanoi's war effort, fabricating "instant" bridges, cargo barges and oil drums...