Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy and Lend-Lease. So far so good. But the big trouble is that Government purchasing agents have probably gone beyond all rhyme or reason. Of the mountains of canned goods bought last year, the Government has so far used about one-third-all the rest gathers dust and rust (but no vitamins) in warehouses and quartermaster depots. Moan the canners: now the Government plans to expand buying, thus build stockpiles still higher...
...trucks and aircraft (fuel pumps, carburetors, door handles, etc.), die-cast gun sights, shell fuses and fire pumps, galvanized ship plates, sanitary equipment and plain tin roofs. Atop this are zinc oxide for paint, tires and medical supplies, "spiegeleisen" (mirror iron) for steel furnace purification, zinc dust for rust prevention. All these have probably boosted sales to $50,000,000 a year, forced New Jersey Zinc's production above 150,000 tons, about 15% of total U.S. output. Punctually enough, New Jersey Zinc last week issued its terse earnings report, showed 1942 profits down...
...save the high-quality steel normally used for such precision instruments, and to speed inspection, some of these gauges are now being rough molded of glass by Corning Glass Works and A. H. Heisey & Co., and finished by instrument makers. Glass gauges do not rust, need not be greased when idle (thus avoiding cleaning before use), are not corroded by perspiration or chemical vapors. Glass is lighter than steel, is less affected by the heat of an inspector's hands. Its transparency is an aid in positioning in the delicate handling necessary in such operations. Once the molds...
...half hour Corwin's drama examined Cromer. There was a church, bomb-scarred but upright; a pier, wrecked in the middle to make it useless to invading Nazis; the beach where as many as 75,000 vacationists once toasted in the summer sun; Rust's nearly empty department store on High Street; a baker named Baker...
...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...