Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of the organization expect that the try-outs for parts, which start after mid-years, will be crowded despite the national emergency. And they are even using the war, in its lighter aspects such as Bundles for Britain for the motif of the book...
...1/20 th of a second, heating it so instantaneously through its danger zone to its 2,700° fusing point that the alloy's unique strength is not affected. Invented by Budd Manufacturing Co. (and used for making stainless steel railroad coaches), Shotwelding may well make steel planes lighter than even welded aluminum planes...
...armor as good as the riveted armor of the Germans? Whether it was or not, better was on the way. Last week American Locomotive Co. ran off its first medium with a cast-steel upper hull. All its surfaces are curved (to make shots glance off). It is also lighter, faster to build...
...principally made of aluminum-base alloys, and Dowmetal is used primarily for engine castings, doors, hatches, floors, seats, brake assemblies, etc. Aluminum is usually used with some percentage of magnesium-partly for greater strength and partly because magnesium makes aluminum easier to work. Wherever strength is not essential the lighter magnesium gets the call...
...Ringside Maisie" is pure maize but this particular bushel of corn is pretty amusing fodder. Ann Sothern, the Brooklyn bonfire, wanders into a boxer's training camp and ends up by marrying his manager. Meanwhile all the old hokum about the lighter with a soul who goes blind, etc., etc., etc. occurs with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and other pugilistic debris to provide an interesting background. A bit below the pan of the Maisie series, the show is still one of the best grade...