Word: moltenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 95% of die castings (formed by forcing molten metal under pressure into steel) are made out of aluminum and zinc, both of which are under priority control. Without aluminum and zinc, the die-casting industry must fold up. Die castings are essential to countless defense products. Yet defense orders (which carry priorities) amount to less than 15% of the industry's business today...
Until 1905, milk bottles and fruit jars were made by blowers who worked molten glass into bubbles, dropped the bubbles into molds, huff-puffed them into shape. The most leather-lunged glass blowers could turn out no more than 800 bottles a day. Then one of them named Michael J. Owens, even longer on brains than on wind, built a machine which produced 30,000 a day. His invention made glassware a mass-production industry overnight. It also molded one of the tightest patent controls ever known in U. S. manufacturing...
Ownership of Owens' "suction" process (socalled because molten glass is sucked into a mold by vacuum) passed to Owens-Illinois Glass Co., now largest glass-container manufacturer in the U. S. Patents on the only other successful modern method (the more recent "gob-fed" process in which blobs of molten glass are dropped into molds) have been held by Hartford-Empire. Through cross-licensing agreements, Hartford-Empire gained influence over both methods, placed itself in a position where for all practical purposes no manufacturer could make a single bottle if Hartford-Empire turned thumbs down. Hartford-Empire...
...over steel plants in Buffalo, Gary, Youngstown, South Chicago, Bethlehem. Pittsburgh, the city of steel, was dark, dirtier than ever as smoke belched from chimneys and rolled along the Monongahela. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, ore was fed into blast furnaces, cooked, tapped out in molten iron streams. Open-hearth and Bessemer furnaces converted iron into white-hot steel which was molded into ingots, rolled and tortured into flat slabs, long, thin blooms. In strip mills, finishing plants, hot metal and cold metal was drawn and pressed into tubes, sheets and ropes of steel-the very...
...hides the pursuer. It is under the dark, heaving water; and even in the air, electric with the radio waves that may mean safety, may mean destruction. And there are terrifying shots-the sinking of a submarine, shells bursting on deck armor that squirts and sizzles like a thousand molten firecrackers...