Word: cobalt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern Pines. The President's staging was expert. His train left Washington in midafternoon, arrived in warm, pine-fragrant Georgia the next morning. He motored 40 miles from Newnan to Warm Springs under a cobalt sky, talked happily for a half-hour with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 21 years, now slowly recovering from acute neuritis [at the Foundation]. He drank his favorite old-fashioneds at a cocktail party given by Warm Springs Trustee Leighton Goldie McCarthy, 71-year-old Canadian Minister to the U.S., and went to his annual Warm Springs turkey dinner, twice postponed...
...White, cadmium yellow (light and medium), cadmium red, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, cerulean blue, viridian green (chromium compound), alizarin crimson and four earth colors...
Germany's contribution to powder metallurgy came about 1916 when the great Krupp Works learned from the electrical industry to press and sinter mixtures of tungsten carbide with cobalt into the hardest cutting compound known, began producing it commercially. These hard-cemented carbides have a hardness between diamond and sapphire. They are often shaped into cutting tools by another product of powder metallurgy: a solidified mixture of diamond dust and bronze powder. They work without softening at high, cherry-red heats while cutting ordinary armament steels two to ten times faster than cutting tools made of the toughest high...
...Under "a mild form" of inventory control were 15 other metals: antimony, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, ferrous alloys, iridium, iron & steel products, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nonferrous alloys, tin, vanadium. Users of these must file statements monthly that they are not increasing their inventories...
...Arthur H. du Grenier Co. of Haverhill, Mass, (vending machines for candy, gum, cigarets) has had to cut production 30-50%, employment one-third, not only because of the die-casting shortage but for lack of steel and of cobalt nickel for the magnet that rejects phony coins. Du Grenier has no defense business. Says Treasurer Bouchard: "We are very much worried about the future...