Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quebec ? a half-explored tract of forest land larger than all New England ? for Réné and Michel Courtois. Three weeks ago they found them 95 miles north of Roberval. Thirteen-year-old Michel, his hair matted, his face aged and seamed from privation, crouched over an iron bucket in which he had kept a fire burning for two months. Nineteen-year-old Réné, dead since July, lay beside him, a moldering skeleton...
...Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until the 1790's. Metallurgists did not introduce its hardening properties to a steel alloy until very recently. Pure iron is a relatively soft metal. A little carbon added yields hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton...
...Konel metal is not to be confused with monel metal, a copper-nickel alloy (plus small amounts of iron, carbon, manganese, silicon) developed in 1905. Monel metal is relatively soft, is valuable for its corrosion-resisting properties...
...gospel of mechanics and motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad there will be a proving ground, foundries for grey iron, malleable iron, brass, aluminum, and separate but coordinated shops for every phase of automotive construction-bodies, radiators, wheels, springs. Even the water and sewage systems will be laid by Austin, and the contract price includes a theatre, library, civic centre, fire department, laundry, electric and gas plants, schools, office buildings...
...mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...