Word: duralumin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speakaluminum. In the National Hardware Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, buying pressure was so heavy that one hapless manufacturer of duralumin folding rulers rigged up a booth to resemble a speakeasy, barred the door to all but established customers. Despite this, his orders by the end of the second day amounted to 180,000, enough to keep his plant busy for 45 days...
Just before noon one day last week a B-29 labored into the skies over California's Muroc Army Air Base. To its duralumin bosom it clutched a precious burden: the Bell Aircraft Corp.'s rocket-propelled XS-1, a plane designed to fly more than 1,000 miles an hour. At 27,000 feet, the stub-winged, orange-colored XS-1 was released to begin its first power flight. It dropped heavily-300, 600, 800 feet. Then the rocket engine in its tail belched flame and it spurted ahead...
...White House physician, Mclntire observed F.D.R. almost daily throughout his presidency. No one close to Roosevelt, says Mclntire, ever thought of him as a cripple. His stupendous vitality and cheerfulness drowned out the clicking of his duralumin braces, overshadowed the wheelchair itself. (No one was more delighted than the President when Mme. Chiang Kai-shek so far forgot his condition as to beg him not to get up and see her to the door.) Mclntire believes that, but for the strain of the war years, which made it impossible for the President to follow his schedule of exercises, he might...
...Thermals. The school is in a mountain-surrounded piece of desert, hot enough to fry the traditional egg on a glider's duralumin fuselage. But the heated air rises, forming the welcome "thermals" which keep a glider aloft. The special glider dashboard instrument is a variometer, which shows a pilot whether he is in one of these upward thermals or in a downward air current...
...piece of neatly machined aluminum alloy. It represented, said Wright, a revolutionary advance in the technique of working duralumin, which meant development of a cylinder head that will give U.S. planes speed, altitude, load and range superiority over the Axis...