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...Kangaroos, blowfish and pelicans use flexible sacs. "The material rather than the shape is the critical factor . . . it must be light, strong, flexible and impervious. . . . Now in . . . aluminum and magnesium we have the means." Storage tanks have been built with flexible roofs of these metals. A slight difference between outside and inside atmospheric pressure balloons the roof...
...Jean-Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie succeeded in making boron, magnesium and aluminum artificially radioactive. The atoms of these normally stable substances continued to shoot out particles for some minutes after the preliminary bombardment stopped. Artificial radioactivity is the key mechanism of the atomic bomb...
ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA. War orders will be sorely missed. Alcoa has delivered $2.2 billion of aluminum and magnesium since war began, still has a backlog of war orders totaling $200 million. But orders on hand from civilian industries amount to a mere $26 million-equal to two weeks' present aluminum production...
...whole contraption, made largely of magnesium, plastics and glass, will come complete with water pipes, ready for installation. Dr. Grebe believes that deliveries of his omnibus house machine will begin "soon...
...Curtis LeMay wound up and pitched the biggest Superfort strike yet. Nearly 600 planes dropped 4,000 tons of fire bombs on four new targets in Kyushu and the toe of Honshu. The Japs could begin counting off Kure, greatest naval base on the Inland Sea; Ube, coal and magnesium center; Shimonoseki, seaport; Kumamoto, military and industrial city...