Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several of the new magnesium makers (Ford among them) use the little-known ferrosilicon process developed by Canada's Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon. Requiring minimum plant-construction time, the Pidgeon process has been recommended by the National Academy of Sciences as promising the quickest yield with the least risk. Unlike electrolytic methods, it does not require great power. Since it uses dolomite (magnesium-calcium carbonate, one of the most plentiful limestones), plants can be almost anywhere...
Curiously, breakage is no drawback: the quick-fingered people who get to be inspectors seldom drop things. In the rare accidents that befall even the quickest-fingered, a dropped steel gauge is useless until recalibrated; a glass gauge either breaks or is as good...
Zoot suitists deprived of drape shapes, reet pleats and stuff cuffs by WPB edict have a new decorative theme with which to express themselves in San Francisco and Oakland. War-working jalopy jerks find love stripes, painted diagonally across the doors of their hot irons,† the quickest way to let hep twists know what kind of wolf is giving them a gander. One stripe indicates single male on the scout. Two stripes-going steady but still stuff seeking. Three stripes-practically engaged, looking for no pickups. Four stripes-in the saddle, all soaped up, or married...
...Dynamiting is quickest, most tricky. A properly placed charge will warp, rip and twist the steel casing, letting in water and sand. Improperly placed, the charge will waste its strength by blowing up and down the well shaft...
Each of these methods may ruin an oil well for months. In most cases, the quickest way to reopen a thoroughly demolished well is to bore another shaft right beside the old one. This is a matter of weeks or months, depending on the toughness of the bedrock and depth of the oil. In the Russian fields, the bedrock is generally soft, the oil not far (often less than 1,000 feet) below the surface...