Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of the British House of Commons made an astounding insinuation last week-that the private Belgian concern, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar...
...There is another great revolution," said Mr. Gannett, "coming in the printing industry, although it may be five or ten years before it is perfected. That is the use of photo-composing instead of metal composing. Instead of producing a column of metal type, we will have a machine which produces a strip of film. The offset process will have to be used instead of the present relief process. The Eastman Kodak Co. is one of the concerns interested in abolishing the present costly and wasteful system of printing...
...what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
...widening rear axles, manufacturers have obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
Carbaloy (tungsten carbide plus cobalt) machine shop tool metal...