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Iron Men's inconsequential and unconvincing story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which...
Ordinarily the big timepiece does not get in much trouble during the year, but occasionally ice and snow stop it at the beginning of winter or else a loosening bolt lets a hand slip out of proper position...
...important Cezannes, The Drinker and The Woodchopper which had been held in a private collection in Switzerland, and I have four Matisse interiors, new ones. It's an amazing thing about Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...
...Society for Testing Materials met in Atlantic City. The 4,400 members of this society are the insurance agents of U. S. industry. They decide exactly how thick and strong a piece of wire must be to make a good bridge cable. They decide how thick and strong a bolt must be to hold an automobile body securely on its chassis. Last week they were trying to establish criteria for the fastness of dyed or printed fabrics against washing. As tentatively established the test is as follows...
Metallic Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some...