Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
Said Ford's chief metallurgist, Russell H. McCarroll, last week: "By making an airplane cylinder barrel as a centrifugal casting instead of a forging, we helped break all four of the main bottlenecks in production: materials, time, skilled manpower and machine tools...
...Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal molds which whirl rapidly until the metal hardens. Impurities are forced to the hollow center of the barrel, where they are easily bored away, and blowholes and shrinkages are avoided...
Centrifugally cast cylinder barrels will be used in all of Ford's Pratt & Whitney engines by this month's end. Both Army and Pratt & Whitney engineers-mindful of the old cast-iron stove lid, which was almost as brittle as glass-were leary of steel castings until Ford testers showed that, while forged barrels burst at 5,000 to 7,000 lb. per sq. in., centrifugally cast barrels burst at 9,000 to 10,000 lb. "Moreover," said a Ford engineer last week, "$10,000 worth of centrifugal dies will turn out as many cylinder barrel blanks...
...missing silverware was finally discovered yesterday afternoon, and a quizzing of the nearest entry-dwellers failed to produce any information concerning the prank. Two strong janitors were needed to get the barrel down stairs, and onlookers wondered how one man, in one trip, could have carried the whole load at once...