Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore 1,800 Ib. lighter. He decided to try a landing anyhow, and he got away with...
Present tin cans are about 98.5% sheet steel, 1.5% tin. (A recent WPB order has reduced the tin content of future cans to 1.25%.) By washing and shredding the cans, then treating with caustic soda and other chemicals, it is possible to extract about 25 Ib. of tin oxide (readily smelted to a grade equivalent to Straits tin) per ton. The detinned sheet steel, once despised and used only for rough castings such as sash weights, is now in big demand by scrap-hungry steelmakers...
...South Atlantic beat is no cinch. Squalls and typhoons range the African coast. All planes are 3,500-6,000 Ib. overloaded (extra gas, rations, war goods) at takeoff. Most African airports are still under construction-nothing to help a three-point landing. Even so, the loss record is good: about 5% at first, a bare...
Even to such hard-boiled dreamers as the aviation engineers, this prediction was a jolt. The world's two biggest planes -the Army's much-touted Douglas Big bomber and Martin's own flying boat Mars-both tip the scales at 140,000 Ib. Any plane two or three times this size would be an almost incredible weapon. As a bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped...
Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. got an order for arc-welding electrodes, weighing 700 Ib. The order itself took a single sheet of paper. But with it came si Ib. of priority extensions, taking 597 sheets of paper (see cut). Each priority (199 in all) required typed fill-ins, two signatures (one notarized with seal). President James Finney Lincoln last week calculated that it cost him much less in money and man-hours to make the electrodes (which sold for $40.90) than to fill out the forms. When he thought of the man-hours spent by his customer...