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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercury turbine was first conceived about 1912 by the late William LeRoy Emmett. He tinkered with small-scale machines in G.E. laboratories until 1922, when the progressive Hartford (Conn.) Electric Light Co. volunteered to install a 1,800-kilowatt mercury plant for commercial power production. It was not a thumping success, nor were two 20,000-kw. plants built for the New Jersey's Public Service Electric & Gas Co. at Kearny and for G.E. at Schenectady...
...writers of German Army communiqués were hard put to explain the situation. Their excuses were lame. "The Soviet Army has not engaged in one single, real large-scale attack during the last eight weeks. Anyhow, fighting in the area which was mentioned by the Soviets has not ceased...
...World War I, the only large-scale commercial method of producing toluene was from by-product coke ovens, which were then a bright new technological improvement over beehive ovens. Germany's Heinrich Koppers, at the instigation of U.S. Steel, had begun revolutionizing U.S. coke production with his ovens in the early 1900s. War and the Alien Property Custodian dumped his properties into U.S. hands (chiefly the Mellons') and also accounted for the growth of Koppers Co., which by war's end was putting a new U.S. coke oven into operation every 60 days, a new U.S. toluene...
Glamor is added to Frenchman's Creek by rigging everyone in costume (vaguely Restoration) and setting him high in the social scale. But the story of Lady Dona St. Columb is the same story that hundreds of women's-magazine serials have told & told again: the temptation and fall-strictly temporary-of a respectable woman. Says Lady Dona, over-assessing herself in the time-honored fashion of housewives...
...shells. Induction heating is used in forging thick metal disks into shells. Its speed and adaptation to automatic work contribute to the mass production demanded in munitions making. The quick-heated metal forms only a soft scale which does not wear out the dies as fast as the hard scale of slow-heated shell material...