Word: floating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Float like a butterfly" could be a tall order for Cassius Clay, 22, who at a portly 230 Ibs. is surely the world's heavyweight something, but not, apparently, its boxing champion anymore. Scoring the TKO it has threatened ever since it started investigating the rank finances of February's fight, the World Boxing Association stripped Cassius of his title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings...
...Floating Out Glass. Ordinary plate glass is melted, put through a series of rollers and then ground and polished to remove imperfections. The float process, devised by Alastair Pilkington, the company's production head and a distant cousin of the founder, produces better glass more simply and cheaply. In the process, molten glass flows onto the surface of hot liquid tin, acquiring a smooth, flawless surface as it floats, then is quickly cooled and hardened before it can be marred by touching any solid object. By reducing the steps in the production process, the method saves...
Pilkington scrapped 100,000 tons of glass while perfecting its process, has since produced and sold 200 million sq. ft. of float glass, which is now used for windshields in nearly all of the 2,000,000 cars made in Britain each year. Most of the world's major glass producers have obtained licenses to make glass according to Pilkington's patented process. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., the first licensee, is already floating out glass...
...Pilkington's new glass headquarters tower and its five plants, which are complemented by factories in eight other British towns and in seven foreign countries. The family-owned company produces more than 500 million square ft. of glass annually, nearly a fifth of it by the new float process...
Pilkington's postwar expansion and its plunge into float glass has been directed by Alastair's cousin, Sir Harry Pilkington, 58, a tall, craggy Cambridge graduate who bicycles to work. Previous Pilkington chairmen have had Httle interest in affairs outside their company, but Sir Harry is a director of the Bank of England, has served as head of government commissions that have investigated everything from TV programs to dentists' fees. He believes that a glassmaker should have a window on the world...