Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With its plants strategically placed. Big Steel has little fear of losing its present share of business, but some competitors in less favorable spots last week faced heavy losses. Bethlehem Steel's factories at Buffalo and Sparrows Point, Md., for example, had to cut their price for steel plate $2 more than did Big Steel in order to equalize freight difference and the effects of removing price differentials. Bluff Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp., whose modern plant at Weirton, W. Va. now is distinctly at a disadvantage, sputtered that the price reductions "would be extremely costly...
...earnestly directed by Edmund Goulding, handsomely performed by its well-chosen cast, White Banners thus turns out to be a smooth, ennobling circus, which should surprise and gratify those who look for sermons in shows and books on double bills. Typical shots: Hannah smiling bravely when Sally breaks a plate; when Pete is impertinent; when Paul Ward has a tantrum...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
Splitting Light. The important work which Robert Williams Wood is now doing is the manufacture of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl...
...Last week, resourceful Robert Young made inroads into two other operating companies. He himself was chosen chairman of New York. Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate); and one of his close associates, Cleveland Shipping Tycoon George A. Tomlinson, was elected chairman of 1'ere Marquette...