Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a Year. Another second-front mass rally was held in Trafalgar Square; 60,000 attended. Editor William Rust of the Daily Worker read a message from 500,000 C.I.O. workers, another ("What are we waiting for?") from onetime Cockney Charlie Chaplin. The small but vocal Communist Party, which hitherto has stuck by the Churchill all-out war policy, scattered second-front leaflets and chalked up signs all over London. A workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King...
...file of rust-pocked freighters dropped anchor last week in Archangel's harbor. These ships of the United Nations had come to Russia's great Arctic seaport on a mission far different from the one in which ships of the same nations had been engaged 24 years ago. In 1918 Allied ships had put ashore at Archangel expeditionary forces to fight Red revolutionaries; this time the nations of the West brought supplies to an embattled Red Army. The safe arrival of the convoy meant more, however, than a complete turn in the wheel of history. It meant...
...looked wrong. In many respects she had proved unpractical. Now the odd-shaped Sea Otter rocked at her mooring in Charleston Harbor, gathering rust. Shipbuilders, sick of hearing about her. sighed: "That stinker." But during her short career she had plowed up a wake which still boiled last week. She had become an "affair...
Trouble was that the mercury 1) dissolved a lot of rust from the steel tubes it moved through, 2) did not heat uniformly, so that it flowed poorly, overheating certain boiler pipes. A corps of chemists, metallurgists, engineers finally figured out the reason. Mercury-with its well-known tendency to hug itself in little globules-was not "wetting" the steel heating tubes in intimate contact. Hence oxygen crept between the two metals and rusted the steel, and the uneven contact led to uneven heating. What was needed was a wetting agent for the mercury. Scientists found it by putting traces...
William Batt's own SKF Industries controls the weather in its ball-bearing plants; Chevrolet has units in its machine-gun plant; Alabama's Rust Engineering has a 1,200-ton machine in its shell-loading plant...