Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make up the difference. To back a note circulation of 1,800,000,000 marks the Reichsbank held 1,370,000,000 marks in gold-double the coverage considered normal in 1914. Another two billion marks in gold currency were in circulation among the people. These liquid reserves made it easy for Germany to market her war bonds-and had she won there would never have been an inflation as insane as that...
Enter Goring. Since General Goring took control of the entire German economy in 1936, the Nazis have made some progress towards their goal of Wartime self-sufficiency in Central and Eastern Europe. Low-grade iron ores are being worked by the State-owned Hermann Goring Iron Works; by 1940 the Nazis expect that perhaps 35% of the iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being...
...about 1870 railroad rails were made of iron because the cost of making steel in quantity was prohibitive. Then the converters invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper. In Bessemer converters-little changed after 70 years-a powerful blast of air is forced through molten pig iron as it lies in the converter's capacious belly. The air oxidizes impurities which form a slag or pass off as gases through the converter mouth. After the slag has formed, the steel is poured into molds to make ingots...
...recent months rumors have reached steelmakers that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., whose stockholders have fared thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
...carry on Dr. Willhelmy's research, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Raymond Andrew Lowry of the Dental Corps. Last week 32-year-old Dr. Lowry, now detailed to the aircraft carrier Yorktown, made a report to the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy which confirmed Dr. Will-helmy's findings, and offered a simpler remedy...