Word: rusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rust demonstrates that whereas few outsiders know what is happening in Russia, the Russians themselves are beginning to find out. A Soviet satire by V. Kirchon and A. Ouspensky, its hero is a great-nosed fellow called Terekhine who uses his prestige as a revolutionary soldier to bully his comrades and preempt their women. When Nina, whose "bourgeois" yearnings for wifehood and maternity have not been stifled by propaganda, tells Terekhine she is pregnant, he curses. When he has persuaded her to have an abortion and she still pesters him, he murders...
Central Alloy Steel. Big producer of specialty steels (Agathon Nitralloy, Agathon Alloy, Toncan, rust resisting iron, Enduro Nirosta [stainless steel]). Recently (TIME, Oct. 21) announced plans to acquire the Interstate Steel Co. of Chicago...
...nature pure iron is scarce. In industry it is practically useless. But alloys of iron when they are hard, flexible, rust and corrosion-resisting are vastly important to modern civilization. To discover new and better alloys, to manufacture the known and useful ones is a paramount concern of such great companies as Central Alloy Steel Corp., Ludlum Steel Company, Krupp. But their research and manufacture are for their particular business. Man may enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making...
Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial...
...total) is the making of tin-plate from which comes the familiar tin can. A tin can consists of about 98½% iron or steel and 1½% of tin-the tin being merely a coating or plate over the steel. Tin, contrary to common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough...