Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel...
...Konel metal is not to be confused with monel metal, a copper-nickel alloy (plus small amounts of iron, carbon, manganese, silicon) developed in 1905. Monel metal is relatively soft, is valuable for its corrosion-resisting properties...
...nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
Having promised themselves "the largest magazine circulation in the world" by 1934 (TIME, July 1), publisher-cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson of nickel-weekly Liberty last week moved to make that circulation profitable. They simplified the duties of the general manager who had gotten Liberty's present circulation, by calling in a man better fitted to supervise the getting of Liberty's advertising...