Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Problem: how to make a jet engine work under water. Solution: make it use a fuel that burns in water instead...
...potassium, sodium, white phosphorus, various metallic hydrides. Some of these can be used in convenient liquid form. When such fuels hit water, they decompose it violently by uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...
...rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...
Giant's Stretch. Now Burlington not only makes 10% of all U.S. woven rayon goods, but is also the biggest U.S. producer of ribbons and second biggest maker of nylon stockings. Love keeps a sharp eye peeled for ways to improve Bur-Mil's products. To test Burlington's fabrics, he gets samples of clothing which other manufacturers make from them, and has Burlington's employees wear them. He set up a monthly fashion clinic for the big clothing designers and manufacturers, thus anticipates (and sometimes creates) trends...
...Deal. The Long Island's troubles were caused by: 1) poor management; 2) the preponderance of passenger traffic over money-making freight traffic; and 3) the recent rise in operating costs. Never a rich road (it had gone bankrupt twice before), it had nevertheless managed to make money between...