Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed a boring machine consigned to Sydney, Australia. The crate was lined with black creosote paper, and except for the light trickling through two tiny knotholes, was completely dark. There was no room for the fugitive to sit or lie down; all he could do was crouch on the metal plate at the base of the machine. He had read in a book on Yoga that meat increases thirst, so all he took with him for what he estimated would be a six-day trip was four bottles of water and two loaves of dry bread...
Patiently, the Farnborough men made "flight" after flight. At last came the event that they had been waiting for. After the equivalent of 9,000 hours of flight, the skin of the cabin near a window yielded to metal fatigue. This gave the essential clue. The scientists found a similar break in the fragments of Yoke Peter near the direction-finder window in the roof. Then they traced, fragment by fragment, what had happened with fearful swiftness to the doomed Comet...
...Failure of a metal after repeated straining. Small cracks, which sometimes start at tool marks, sharp indentations or other "stress raisers," spread through metal until it breaks. Sufficient strength, correct design and careful fabrication can prevent such failures...
...also find corner-cutting tricks. When he first saw sketches of a Buick that carried the fender line back into the body for the first time, he did not wait for the year-long process of changing dies. Instead, he devised a method of bolting extra panels of metal on to the old body to get the new style into his showrooms as quickly as possible. While looking over one recent model, Curtice spotted a flaw in its lines, was told that it was far too late to do anything about it. Said he: "To hell with the time element...
Short Orders. Harlow Herbert Curtice was born (1893) in the little crossroads town of Petrieville, Mich., the second son of a wholesale-produce man. (Curtice's older brother, LeRoy, has been an hourly-paid paint-and-metal inspector at G.M.'s Fisher Body plant since 1936.) After graduating from high school, Curtice worked for a year in a local woolen mill, saved up enough to go to Big Rapids' Ferris Institute. To pay his way, he worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris...