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Even the super-efficient U.S. auto industry can hardly beat such efficiency; it orders 40% of all its auto frames from A. O. Smith. The company has made a profession of revolutionizing mass-production techniques. It has become the world's largest maker of steel pipe, also turns out 24 other products ranging from glass-lined vats to landing gear for B-47 jet bombers. In the last ten years, A. 0. Smith's sales have mushroomed from $46.7 million in 1941 to $176.6 million last year, its net has nearly tripled...
Then he began thinking about the laborious process of making steel pipe from solid blocks of metal. Shortly after, the company began turning steel sheets into 40-ft. tubes, which a flash-welding machine transformed into pipe in 30 seconds. As a result, Smith not only revolutionized the steel-pipe industry, but made possible the web of gas and oil pipelines covering the U.S., including World War II's Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines (built with A. O. Smith pipe). Some newer products: glass-insulated hot-water heaters for homes, steel-and-glass silos for farms which...
...Hunt. As each plane begins to roll down the runway, a vast, bright flame bursts from its tail. This is the afterburner: extra fuel dumped into the tail pipe to give extra power. The flame looks as big as the airplane, and it roars like continuous thunder. It shoots the plane forward and then upward as if a gigantic elevator were pulling it into the sky. As the plane rises almost vertically, the great flame shrinks to a small, bright point like a moving star. Then it blinks out suddenly; the fighter is at its search altitude, and the stealthy...
...oldsters, whether healthy or ill, eat, smoke and drink what they like. He told of two middle-aged women who brought their spry, neat, 80-year-old father in to see him. Another doctor had found a little high blood pressure, and had deprived the old boy of his pipe, his bedtime highball, his red meat, his table salt, his puttering in the garden and his strolls around town. The father had rebelled and the women wanted Alvarez to back up the other doctor...
Manufacturers at that time, according to Owen, catered to the "elegant tastes of the middle class," and developed what he calls the "horticultural school" of ornament. "Art was modernized until every common article took on the air of a tortured gas-pipe...