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...bigger, more powerful infantry weapon is known as the Armalite (for "light armament"). Firing a .308-cal. round, it has the hitting power and range of the Springfield T 44 and the Belgian F.N. but weighs only 6.8 pounds because it is made of lightweight aluminum alloy and plastics, is so soundly constructed that it sacrifices neither accuracy nor sturdiness. Unlike almost any other rifle, the fully automatic Armalite can be manufactured on an assembly-line basis; it discards the traditional drilled steel barrel for a barrel liner made of stainless steel tubing, and swaged, i.e., forced by machine, into...
...Stand Still. When they swarmed over the X2, engineers found welcome news. Made of heat-resistant stainless steel and nickel alloy with a specially tempered windshield designed to withstand 1,000° F. temperatures, the X-2 was built to probe the "thermal thicket" of supersonic speeds where the heat generated by friction with the atmosphere can turn metal into putty. But there were no thorns in the thicket for the X2. She was untouched...
...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...