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...Industries, Inc., which is partly controlled by Heinrich and Giinter Rohm of the German firm, employs about 200 people to do that kind of assembly work at a shabby white concrete building in the garment district of northwest Miami. The cheap alloy frame is smoothed with a file and then placed on an assembly line where the barrel and German parts are inserted. Then the metal is tinted a dark blue. RG Industries last year sold 190,000 such weapons, making it the nation's fifth largest handgun producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Gun, Will Travel: Germany's RG Industries, Inc | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Foti thinks the statues must date from not much later than the Archaic period, which ended in 450 B.C., since their posture is the typical Archaic stance, with the left foot forward. The bronze alloy is typical of that period. But the delicacy and realism of the detail and the elaboration of musculature suggest that the sculptors were already moving toward the exquisite modeling that became the glory of classical Greece in the age of Pericles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ancient Gifts from the Sea | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...Vehicle Exposition and Conference. One of the new cars-made under U.S. Department of Energy auspices by General Electric, Chrysler and Globe-Union, a major battery manufacturer-was low slung and wedgelike, with the sexy space-age acronymic designation ETV-1 (for electric test vehicle). The car has lightweight alloy wheels and plastic windows, and runs on modified lead-acid batteries. It is, however, slow as molasses: 0 to 30 m.p.h. in 8.8 sec., 25 to 55 in an interminable 17.6 sec. It can go only 123 miles at 35 m.p.h. before it must be recharged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Volts Wagon Does It, Again | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

Although apparently none of the 100 tons of uranium fuel melted, the zirconium alloy cladding that surrounds the uranium rods was heavily damaged, the NRC said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NRC Says Nuclear Accident Caused Reactor Core Damage | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...small engines (no more than 2 h.p., usually 1), most models get about 150 m.p.g. The French-made Solex gets more than 200 m.p.g; it is one of the few mopeds whose engine drives the front wheel. Prices range from $300 on up to $550 for models with cast-alloy wheels, special suspensions and cushy seats. Pedals are used to start the machines and assist them on hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Moped Madness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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