Word: milling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photoelectrically controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed...
...Annual rolling mill capacity: over 13,000,000 tons. Rolling speed: 1,800 feet a minute...
...high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic for him, he set out to make his living in a Lawrence mill...
Japan has several lumbering German-made rolling mills of the type outmoded by the U. S. continuous strip process, and it has one 43-in. continuous hot and cold strip mill (not yet operating) sold it by United and Mesta Machine. But it has no way, except by U. S. purchase, of replacing any parts in this continuous mill or of building another. In theory, its new purchase from United will end some of these deficiencies. Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology...
...English mill at capacity will be able to turn out 600,000 tons of strip a year. But this is not enough to meet the armament demand. Last week England bought 100,000 tons of U. S. sheet steel for air-raid shelters...