Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, blasphemous city editors raved about the story as "the biggest since the Crucifixion." Last week the story headed the three lists of "biggest news stories of the year" prepared annually by Associated Press, United Press and Hearst's International News & Universal Service...
Basis of the Lenz Process is the ancient art of tire perdue (a refinement of the secret process of Benvenuto Cellini). A figure is modeled in wax, which is in turn enclosed in a mold. Heat melts the wax out, and metal is poured into the aperture. Available for the first time last week were many of Alfred Lenz's secret refinements...
...memorizing the exact melting points of the various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...
...year married youthful Alexis du Pont Jr. Racing speedboats used to be his chief hobby. Since 1926 he has competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made a record for the fastest 30-mi. heat in that class (61.5 m.p.h.). Also in 1930 he was awarded the medal of the Regatta Circuit Riders' Club for having done most for motorboating. Racer Hoyt has a reputation among his opponents as a daring driver, a "grand sport." His mechanic says: "There are only two positions...
...Berlin Dr. Arthur Eichengrun, authority on non-inflammable cellulose products, is experimenting with a fire-extinguishing compound with which airplane materials might be impregnated. When subjected to heat, the compound is supposed to emit fire-quenching gases. A test reported by the New York Times last week: one-half of a miniature blimp was impregnated with Dr. Eichengriin's solution, shut off from the other half by a bulkhead. The untreated portion was ignited, blazed away in a flash; the treated half remained intact, kept the whole structure aloft...