Word: alloyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time Corp. use a surprising trick to sell the company's watches. They take the watches off their wrists and calmly throw them on customers' floors to show how shock-resistant the watches are. The toughness comes partly from bearings of Armalloy, an extremely hard alloy that U.S. Time uses in place of jewels. Says President Joakim Lehmkuhl: "A jeweled watch can be a piece of junk just as a non-jeweled watch can. With the modern metal alloys available, the role of jewels is much overemphasized...
Died. Glenn Luther Martin, 69, barnstorming flyer and pioneer aircraft builder who made the first plane specifically designed for mail service, first U.S. bomber with an alloy steel fuselage, later built the China Clipper; founder of the Glenn L. Martin Co., early seaplane developer; after two years of illness; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
...case, few steel companies are in better shape to take a bigger bite of the market than Republic. Third biggest U.S. steelmaker (after U.S. Steel and Bethlehem) and top producer of alloy and stainless steel. Republic specializes in the light "growth" steels which go into industry's mushrooming output of autos. kitchen appliances, air conditioners, etc. Largely as a result of specialization, technical advances, e.g., high-pressure blast furnace blowing and strategic location of its eleven steel mills and 30 fabricating plants, Republic has made money steadily over a 2O-year period. With its new facilities, Republic will have...
...shattered by the impact: its flat motor hood ripped loose and scythed through spectators like a guillotine knife. The heavy engine followed, spewing parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...
...authorities on raw materials, took over Climax in 1949, the company owned North America's biggest known supply of the metal, in Colorado, but had few buyers. Bunker, 58, went to Washington to argue that the U.S. was in poor shape for the heat-resistant alloy it needed for jet engines, persuaded the Government to start buying...