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Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
...industry has been experimenting with plastic bodies for 30 years, and many bugs must still be worked out. But the rustproof fiber glass boasts many advantages over steel. Plastic bodies do not require the expensive dies used in making steel bodies. Thus, it may be possible to turn out small numbers of sports cars in various models, give buyers more individuality in cars...
Wheat rust has been around a long time. It bothered Roman wheat growers so much that they created a special rust god, Robigus, and blamed him for its outbreaks. U.S. plant scientists thought they had licked it. They bred rustproof wheat varieties that kept U.S. fields almost clear of the disease for 15 years, accounting for a good part of recent bumper wheat crops. Last summer Race 15B, a new, extra-virulent strain, appeared on wheat from Pennsylvania to Texas. It attacked all commercial varieties. Durum wheat, used for making spaghetti, was hardest hit, with 10 million bushels lost...
...fearsome a word as death or taxes-and once it was just as inevitable. When the fungus attacks wheat, the crop is destroyed. But after the black year 1935, when 85,000,000 bushels were lost to rust, Canada's Dominion Experimental Farms Service developed two "rustproof" wheat strains, Renown and Regent. Last week, the Service announced that rust, adapting itself to new conditions as Nature usually does, is now attacking the rustproof strains. But Canada's wheat crop was in little danger. Reason: the Service has developed a new wheat strain which resists both...
...coating which will make metals rustproof...