Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After listening to testimony from both industry and Government experts, a Senate Armed Services subcommittee last week issued a sharply critical report on the U.S. titanium program. The much-touted miracle metal for jet engines, said the committee, is not living up to its advance billing. Though planemakers need titanium badly, the metal is so costly (current price: $7,000 to $8,000 a ton) and so difficult to fabricate that "production is running far ahead of demand." As a result, the General Services Administration has already stockpiled 4,000 tons of excess titanium at a cost of $36 million...
...addition, there are machine, electric and sheet metal shops, and a wood-working mill. A key shop, which makes thousand of keys each year, contains a copy of every one of the keys in the University--estimated in the tens of thousands, is located on the second floor. "A student could go anywhere if he ever got into this vault," Roberts notes...
...Ultrasonic vibrations of a ship's hull will keep the ship free of the mariner's ancient scourge, the barnacle, a British inventor announced last week. Birmingham Biochemist M.H.M. Arnold first rigged up a generator to make a bundle of thin metal plates vibrate at 25 kc., found that the plates were clean after long immersion in barnacle-infested waters. Next he fitted generator and plates to the hull of a barnacle-prone 17,000-ton liner. Union Castle, so the entire hull vibrated silently. After an 18-month voyage. Union Castle returned clean. So did a second...
...which short-cuts older methods by turning out pure crystals easily pressed into ingots, will be put into pilot production by National Research Corp. under a $1,183,495 contract from the General Services Administration. National Research expects that it can lick the big problem of impurities in the metal that has caused aircraft makers to balk at wide...
...Cleveland's Public Hall last week, some 10,000 members of the American Mining Congress swarmed about huge machines that held the hope of new life for the dying coal industry. The metal monsters, along with sketches and pictures of others too huge to bring into the hall, promised dramatic cuts in mining costs all along the line...