Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tempered glass is made from ordinary plate glass, which is first heated close to the melting point in an electric furnace, then abruptly chilled by blasts of air. The surface, cooling and contracting faster than the inside, becomes a stretched, flexible skin and the inside retains some elasticity because of compression by the skin. Libbey-Owens-Ford has installed under license the special electric furnaces in which tempered glass was first made in Europe. The glass must be cut to size before furnace treatment because after tempering it is crumbled by cutting tools. It can be finished in various colors...
...bending springboard. The equipment came in for more attention than the posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is about five times stronger than plate glass, can be bent or twisted 20° out of its plane, is unharmed by sudden temperature shifts, and when finally shattered by a severe impact does not fly into jagged slivers but crumbles harmlessly into small bits...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...
...with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers were proud to be called Wu mi ("infatuated with Wu"). He liked strong wine, singing and gold plate. His serious faults were his confidence that he was a greater general than Napoleon and his poor judgment of men. Wu at one time had all North China in his pocket. His ally, the "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, betrayed and ruined him. Time and again Wu, sickened by China...
...Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...