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Dennis Intravia, one of the inventors, said yesterday that the steel alloy used for the locks has to be softened when it comes from the mill. The material was developed originally for government use and when hardened is impossible to cut, Intravia said...
...Audi NSU $12 million in the early '60s for rights to the engine, spent seven years and $20 million improving its performance. The most crucial problem, devising a tight but long-lasting seal at the three apexes of the rotor, was solved by substituting a carbon alloy for the cast-iron tip used in German models. The original Wankel engines belched clouds of smoke, so Toyo Kogyo built a 40-lb. "thermal-reactor" afterburner to oxidize the exhaust and attached a dozen more antipollution devices to the engine. As a result, says Jiro Morikawa. president of Mazda Motors...
Carbide operates a factory in Alloy, W. Va., a company town, which emits five times as much dirt, dust, and particulate matter every day as the city of San Francisco. The death rate from lung cancer in this factory's county is three times the national average...
...after a 16-year hiatus, which Fry has devoted largely to film scripts and translations of foreign plays. Sun serves as a reminder that his old acclaim and ostracism were both exaggerated. At their best, his plays strike a mean that, if not golden, is a highly polished alloy. Dramatically, he is neither as large nor as small a Fry as he has been taken...
...less than a minute, one of the service module's two spherical oxygen tanks was completely empty; nearly 320 Ibs. of supercold ( -297° F.) oxygen, a highly pressured mix of gas and liquid, had gushed out of the spacecraft, apparently through a rupture in its thin alloy skin. Looking out of his window, Lovell could see vapor streaming by. "We are venting something into space," he reported. "It's a gas of some sort." At the same time, the spacecraft began to pitch and roll in reaction to the violent expulsion...