Word: charlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called Seaporcel, a silica product, the coating is first sprayed, then fired on the surface of metal. The Navy and Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled mail and passengers between New York and Chicago. It was the biggest mass freight flight in aviation history. And although its total freight load was only 90 tons, airmen knew that when peace comes that load could be multiplied almost indefinitely...
Mellon Hall living quarters of the statisticians will be vacated during the afternoon and evening Monday; next day the char force moves in armed with brooms, rags mops, to prepare the dorm for the following class--the 8th class--due from Miami about March...
...Stat School students are urged to assist the char force as much as possible by placing all trash they are leaving behind Monday in receptacles for same in the hallways and basement corridors. Be sure to take articles of enlisted clothing to the Supply Sergeant if you are not taking them with...
...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...