Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...
During spring vacation, DeSa will go to New York to talk to sailing enthusiasts about the voyage and to try to recruit a crew of at least four to man his onemasted cutter, the Viking...
DeSa needs a permanent crew of four persons to sail his boat and hopes to take along a mixed company, perhaps including a married couple. The cutter has sleeping room for six, and DeSa wants to find two more sailors to go at least part way with him. Each crew member will have to pay his own expenses, which will be about...
...cutting of the plaque, a three month job, is being performed by a stone-cutter crew of eight of which ANDREW BARATTA, pictured above, is one. Difficulty in working on the rough marble of which the plaque is made prevented completion of the project this fall, as originally scheduled...
What, No Handcuffs? The British hastily passed an edict banning any visits to Helgoland, then told German authorities to enforce it. A British revenue cutter ordered to the scene was damaged by ice floes and forced back to base for repairs. A Royal Navy patrol boat met the same fate. The ex-German navy captain of a minesweeper flotilla, now operating under British orders, refused to send his ships...