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...Germany. The huge casting is actually only a single pact of a still bigger machine: a giant extrusion press 2½ times more powerful than any of its type in the U.S. When it is put together, the press will be capable of horizontally ramming a heated aluminum billet into a stationary die with a force of 13,200 tons (equal to the weight of 156 loaded coal cars). The new press will cut production time in half for some types of aircraft wing panels and body parts...
...good share of the applause belonged to the orchestra that played the work-the Boston Symphony. The 104 musicians of the Boston had started their first European visit in a muddle over housing arrangements. The men wanted to shift for themselves, rebelled against a plan to billet them all in one hotel. Their conductor, Charles Munch, solved the problem in a hurry: "I don't care whether you gentlemen sleep together. What matters to me is that you play together...
...forging press shapes a hot aluminum billet by bringing two dies together under enormous pressure; an extrusion press shapes the metal by ramming hot metal into stationary dies...
...three poems can be summed up in a word: esoteric. Both Charles Neuhauser's "Sunday in Jersey" and Douglas Freelander's "Death of the Old Singer" start off with some promise of entertainment for the general reader, but plunge headlong into a thick fog before they are half done. "Billet Doux," by Robert Layzer, is simply a nifty little sentiment, niftily expressed...
...Republic Steel's Canton, Ohio plant, when a disgruntled worker was told to hurry, he snapped back: "Why should I knock myself out for Republic? They make $75 out of every billet of steel and I get nothing." His foreman, Chris Cutropia, who was both forewarned and forearmed, took the worker aside, and convinced the griper that the company would be lucky to make 75? a billet. Reporting the incident to his superiors, Foreman Cutropia added: "Three months ago I wouldn't have been able to say anything...