Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them any good. The plane, buffeted by headwinds, had to detour by way of Iceland. Nathoo took the pitching & tossing like a seasoned air traveler (which he isn't) but Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
...Valpey acted yesterday to strengthen what he considers weaknesses in the Crimson's defensive armor, when he tried out tackles Will Davis and Tom Guthrie as line-backer and defensive end respectively...
...Double Armor. In Manhattan, police charged that Rafael Rios was doing his pickpocketing with a Bible in one hand and a concealed lead pipe in the other...
...Stronger than steel, withstood shell fragments as successfully as armor plate ..." Thus a laminated plastic cloth was excitedly described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
Electric Trigger. The problem of getting oil out of its protective sand-and-stone armor is as old as the first well. For years oilmen used dynamite, and topped the charge with water. No better method was found until two Los Angeles oil-machinery salesmen, Wilfred G. Lane and Walter T. Wells, tackled the problem in 1932. In a few months they developed their perforator gun, which can fire as many as 128 bullets in any desired direction. Its force is great enough to pierce five layers of steel casing and concrete, make enough fissures in the surrounding strata...