Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Hewitt had worried about plenty of things, but not about the weather. He had worried about the difficulty of accurate landfalls on a strange coast at night; about the virtual impossibility of anything but tactical surprise; about the deviation of compasses when the soldiers with their metal rifles got aboard the assault boats. But by 7 o'clock on the eve of the invasion, the storm was so bad that the Admiral was having to consider ordering the landing craft to stay offshore...
Called Seaporcel, a silica product, the coating is first sprayed, then fired on the surface of metal. The Navy and Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...
...play-yard contains what PBH describes as the last metal swing in the city of Boston, as well as a hose shower and galvanized iron wash-tub. Thirty boys and girls play with the crates. Swings, and toys, while the PBH janitor gleefully squirts then with the hose. Supervising the activities are four trained assistants, while the PBH secretaries lean out of the windows to watch the frolic...
...Steam. At that temperature, ordinary steam pipes become red hot; consequently, new metal alloys had to be developed to withstand the heat. To regulate the heating of the steam, the Navy had to develop a brand-new kind of boiler in place of the space-consuming boiler dampers used in land power plants...
...surface." These extra tons now carried her down steeply. She could not be checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight of the sea pressed down on the hull. One of the motors began to whine eerily. . . . For ten minutes the hydrophone operator heard the sound of ships near by, then the sounds faded...