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...same part is cast instead of forged, it weighs only 11 lb. before machining, because molten metal can be poured into nooks & crannies where no trip hammer can force it. So only 5 lb.-about one-third as much-of steel remain to be tooled away. Result: a 35% saving in skilled man-hours (according to Metallurgist Carl F. Joseph of General Motors), plus a corresponding 35% increase in the capacity of machine tools...
...Czecho-Slovakia a workman called "Old Vacek" ran a crane at the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen. One day a big ladle of molten lead being carried on Vacek's crane suddenly flipped over. It happened that a posse of German Army commissioners were passing beneath: 14 of them were burned to death. Old Vacek did not try to pretend accident. He dived out of his cab, 60 feet head first to the concrete floor...
...barrels. Steel is induction-melted, then poured into a horizontally rotating mold which continues to spin until the casting hardens. Thus formed is a hollow, easy-to-bore barrel instead of the solid ingot from which cannon were formerly forged and drilled. Slag (formed by the oxidation of the molten metal) is forced to the inner surface of the casting, where it can easily be tooled away...
...Magnetic forces keep the molten metal stirring about, so that the several components of an alloy remain well mixed...
...sculptor. He fled to the U.S. from Unoccupied France last summer with four of his ponderous bronze statues, no money. This week Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery presented his first U.S. show in six years. Cast in weird, glowering embryonic gobs whose lumpy lines suggested the random patterns of molten slag, Lipchitz's bronzes showed writhing subhuman and sub-animal figures. One, called Mother and Child, was a legless, stump-armed female torso, held by the neck in the ponderous grip of a bulgy, anthropoid infant. Each is signed with the thumbprint of Sculptor Lipchitz...