Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles southeast of Ambrose Lightship. Among the scallops the rake dredged up a curious object: a gigantic tooth that would have taken a Paul Bunyan dentist with forceps the size of crossed crowbars to extract. The tooth was 6.5 inches long and Weighed 3.7 pounds. The roots were rust-colored and scaly, but the hard crown was jet black, as if the owner had chewed betel nuts...
They finally found it-a two-story house of rust-colored brick on the border between white and Negro districts in midSt. Louis. The place was 50 years old, but it had a lawn and stood on a quiet, elm-shaded street. They made a down payment, signed a mortgage and moved in one day in October 1945. That evening a process server notified them that they had been sued by a white neighbor. The neighbor wanted to throw them...
...those ships are waiting for coal as fuel for Italy, OK. If it's for fuel for the ships themselves, they'll rust at the docks. Liberty ships . . . are oil-burners...
Soon machines were shipped in, roads were snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents...
...plant only where tests proved it to have definite advantages over other materials. In the case of aluminum v. steel, one disadvantage is higher cost. But Alcoa claims that, because it is easier to erect (it is much lighter) and cheaper to maintain (it is much more resistant to rust), it is worth the difference...