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...Babcock has made this tour for 19 years and never seen the likes of this slaughter. The guilty hawk, he says, shuttles regularly between the Mom Hall and Memorial Church towers at feeding time, looking for his meal...
...Last year's owl ate like a bird compared to this hawk," Babcock said...
...native of Schenectady, N.Y., Cox got his start in business in 1914 as a public accountant, worked for Crucible Steel and Babcock & Wilcox before joining Big Steel's National Tube Co. in 1934 as general superintendent of the Ellwood City, Pa. plant. In 1943 he moved to the presidency of National Tube, and was awarded a Certificate of Merit by President Truman for boosting steel production during World War II. He moved over to Carnegie-Illinois as president...
...charged with failing to bring certain problems out of the physicist's slide-rule realm into the everyday trial-&-error world of engineers who might solve them and perhaps make good use of the results in other industries. For example, Committee Member Isaac Harter, director of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd., got an idea from an atomic process that helped his company refine its continuous steel casting process...
...continuous caster is the offspring of a marriage between a steel producer and a user. Cleveland's Republic Steel Corp. did the first research, then got the boiler-making Babcock & Wilcox Co. to solve the enigma of high-speed transfer of heat. Republic, which has millions tied up in conventional equipment, holds that the revolution is still far off, but has agreed to license the process to anyone who wants...