Word: melts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Induction currents, engineers are finding, provide a quick, simple, easily controlled way of heating or melting metals and of concocting alloys. An induction furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat...
...conditioning units are rated by ton capacity: one-ton machine removes enough heat to melt one ton of ice every 24 hours...
Having narrowly escaped permanent freezing by the vetoed Fulmer bill (TIME, Aug.11), the vast U.S. cotton surplus last week began to melt, sent a glacial trickle towards a potentially vast war market. The Department of Agriculture announced that 1,500,000 bales of Government-owned, 1937-crop cotton are now available for export at 13¼ a lb., 4? below the current market price...
...Oswego, N. Y. There the 369th anti-aircraft regiment, a Negro National Guard unit from Harlem, is having a year's training. The men of the 369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...
...this. But for Aline Bernstein it was quite natural. Her writing combines a theatre worker's feeling for mannered grace in gesture and interiors with the lithe conversational style of a skilled manual worker, a cultivated peasant. Hers is sentimental writing, but it is good enough to melt in the mouth...