Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over a rocking drum beat, the voices of a group called The Electric Prunes float in breathy unison: "Kyrie eleison . . . Christe eleison...
...Floating Cars. Spearlike steel girders cascaded into the shattered trucks and cars, pinning people against the bank and the riverbed. Others drifted free for a few moments. "I saw this car float past," said Christmas-tree Salesman H. L. Whobrey. "It looked like there were people inside beating their hands against the windows...
...developing a grinder that smoothed both sides of the glass simultaneously - until recently the common method for finishing flat glass. But grinding scoured off 20% of the finished glass, and something better was needed. In 1959, after seven years and $20 million worth of research, Pilkington announced a float process for making sheet and plate glass that revolutionized the industry. In it, glass forms while floating on a surface of molten tin, and there is no need to polish it afterward. Float glass, moreover, has less distortion than glass made by earlier processes...
Last week Pilkington informed customers of another advance: it can now make tinted glass by the same float process with considerable savings in time and capital expense. Up to now, when glassmakers wanted to produce tints-even with a float process-they either had to shut down and convert regular lines or else build an additional plant. Under the new method, which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process...
Pilkington's original float process-developed by Chief Researcher Alastair Pilkington, Sir Harry's cousin-was so successful that glass companies in eleven nations rushed to obtain licenses for it, including the Soviet Union and such U.S. glassmakers as Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and the Ford Motor Co. Eventually, Pilkington expects to earn about $240 million annually from the float process in license fees, royalties and exports: the new tint process will add another $24 million a year to that. Meanwhile controlling 85% of British glassmaking and exporting its own products to 100 nations around...