Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room bachelor officer's suite at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base, and had taken an office right across the hall from the office the President used before he was stricken. By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it. Seated there, Adams fitted the nickname that he acquired back in New Hampshire: "the Rock...
TITANIUM, once boomed as a wonder metal, is going begging. Demand is so low (8,000 tons yearly, v. industry capacity of 22,500 tons) that the Office of Defense Mobilization has curbed expansion of production by withholding aid, e.g., fast tax write-offs, for titanium plants. As a result, Du Pont will change plans for making titanium in Tennessee...
...floor of the Chicago Amphitheater one night last week, a machinist pushed a button on a large lathe, then stood back, hands in pockets. In seconds, the automatic lathe fed itself a piece of roughly shaped metal, turned it into a stator (the stationary part of an electric motor), inspected it to make sure it was perfect, swept the waste metal into a receptacle, then started work to make another part. If the finished part had not been perfect, the lathe would have discarded it and made the proper corrections o make sure the next part was exactly to specifications...
Other machines showed what the automatic factory of the future will be like with rows of metal monsters turning raw materials into finished products. One example was a machine that grinds both the inside and outside of a valve, grooves it as well. Built by Landis Machine Co. of Waynesboro, Pa., the machine has gauges that measure the tolerance after each step m the operation, automatically toss aside faulty valves and readjust the machine to the proper dimensions. Cost...
...driller that cuts the hardest metal-e.g., tungsten carbide-without touching it. Made by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., the cutting edge is a stream of electrons a sort of manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard...