Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day he climbed into his little cage 20 feet above the foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...
...Aircraft Corp. To make repairs on its new supersonic Voodoo jet fighter, the St. Louis planemaker has printed 1,100 drawings of structural parts (wing panels, etc.) on a special, transparent glass cloth. All a mechanic has to do is lay the cloth over a sheet of chemically prepared metal, set it in the sun; the sun's rays trace the part's exact outline on the metal for the mechanic...
Unlike other reinforced plastics which must be built up layer after layer, Scotchply can be worked like wood or molded like metal; it is shatterproof, rotproof, waterproof, can be sawed, drilled, cemented or polished. As production began last week, the company saw a potential market for Scotchply in everything from air frames to auto parts and delicate printed circuits. The one drawback: its current high price of $2 a lb., which the company hopes to cut down with mass production...
...auto upsurge, sparking a huge demand for metal, was firing up furnaces all through the steel industry. Mill output last week was at 77.5% of capacity, highest in ten months and a full 20% over the summer level. Steelmen were also receiving big orders from such other metal-consuming industries as machine tools and appliances. TV setmakers for example, hit a record monthly output of 948,000 units in September and were pushing higher still...
When the University dismantled the metal stands adjoining the Stadium three years ago, Lloyd Paul Jordan watched grimly and vowed, "I'm going to see the day when they'll be sorry they tore down those stands." Today, as the varsity football team takes the field against Yale, his determined promise will be fulfilled. Coming here when Harvard football was at its low ebb, Jordan has rebuilt the entire football organization, and losses by such scores as 47-7 are just a bad memory. Jordan has been sometimes unpleasant, often gruff, always close-mouthed, but he has always been honestly...