Word: alloys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been depressed since its mills closed four years ago. ¶ At Winchendon, Mass. some 500 men & women worked in two 8-hour shifts to supply a record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase in alloy sales of 16% by volume, 18% by dollars. Allegheny specializes in "Allegheny and Ascoloy Metals," chromium nickel stainless steel alloys. ¶ In the year ended Oct. 31, 1935, U. S. railroads abandoned only 1,692 miles of track. They abandoned 2,514 miles in 1934. New trackage came to 88 miles...
Schenectady. At General Electric Co.'s research headquarters, slick-haired Researcher W. E. Ruder showed the junketeers a small permanent magnet made of a new iron alloy containing aluminum, nickel and cobalt, hence called "Alnico." This stuff is so powerfully magnetic that it lifts 60 times its own weight, as was demonstrated when a 55-lb. radio cabinet swung from an Alnico disk of less than a pound. Alnico is being groomed to displace small electromagnets in motors, transformers and loudspeakers, lowering cost and simplifying construction...
...doubt thrown on the probability that a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury coating have been discovered, and it has been found that the particular alloy of which they are made will polish to a shiny, silver surface. Replicas of the same alloy are now being made for further experimentation...
...commerce. There are those who would have us believe the U. S. to be a self-sufficient nation. On the contrary, intelligent persons know that to be prosperous our merchants, manufacturers and growers must export at least 10% of their products. In turn, we must import rubber, spices, alloy minerals, yute and countless necessities of which we produce little or none within our 48 States...
...silt from the Eighth Level: wooden coffins with their skeletons undisturbed, buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...