Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years-except for his important spadework for the Rio and Bogota conferences. But his friends believed that he left behind him ideas which would live and grow. Already Brazil had shown itself more receptive to U.S. investment in oil development. Pawley had tried to interest U.S. iron and steel men in the possibilities of Itabira (TIME, April 5). Some day that work might bear fruit...
Reflecting the Council's desire to iron out the present tense international situation entirely through the machinery of the UN, the cable said in part: "The United Nations-Council of Harvard views with deep apprehension the discordant relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the consequent effects upon the efforts of the United Nations to make the peace secure. . . . May we take the liberty of urging that you meet with President Truman and Trygve Lie in the hope that the mediation of international authority may best promote the resolution of current difficulties...
...Europe. A network of forgers and falsifiers-some clever and some not-are busily peddling allegedly secret documents to embassies, intelligence officers, ministries and newspaper correspondents. . . . Judging from the Soviet press ... it is likely that documents are being peddled with equal facility on the other side of the Iron Curtain. . . . The market for such 'phonies' is probably better today than ever before in history...
Steel manufacturers know that sulphur (an undesirable impurity) gets into steel from the coal used as fuel. But there are two types of sulphur in coal: organic and "pyritic" (iron sulphide). Republic Steel Corp. wanted to know whether either type is driven off when the coal is made into coke. There was no handy chemical way to find out, but the Little Co.'s scientists worked out a tracer technique that did the job quickly and easily...
...long, the chemists think, before radioactive tracers are used to control industrial processes. Bessemer converters, for instance, burn impurities out of molten iron with a blast of air. Usually the phosphorus is the last impurity to go. The Little scientists propose that a small amount of radioactive phosphorus be added to the mix. When it (and the ordinary phosphorus with it) has been burned out of the steel, automatic instruments will note instantaneously the drop in radioactivity. Then the air blast can be shut off at exactly the right moment...