Word: seam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welding arc that if it is held more than an instant on one spot, it will eat a hole through a thick steel plate. With his brilliant sputtering arc always in motion, a masked welder "knits" a seam by laying molten steel deposits endlessly atop each other...
...other project: a technique (seam welding and gang riveting) which would make possible the mass production of airplane fuselages. At Ypsilanti the building where Ford will turn out centre sections for Consolidated and Douglas bombers on an assembly line was almost finished. According to big, leathery Charles Sorensen, chief Ford production man, the aircraft industry has done the development job, the production job is now up to the automakers, who understand how to work out the integration and flow of materials for volume output...
...rare as were Marshals of Napoleon by 1840, or old Bolsheviks by 1938, are international capitalists in 1940. Of that once fabulous and proverbially sinister tribe, a seam-faced, 75-year-old survivor arrived with wife and family in Manhattan last week. He was Tin King Simon Ituri Patino. For many years Sefior Patino has run Bolivian politics from Paris, married his daughters to French and Spanish nobility, enjoyed extraterritoriality (and freedom from income taxes) as Bolivia's Minister to France. For several months he has been appearing and disappearing in the U. S. tin picture, uncertain where...
...Breaking up coal in veins by use of explosives is still standard practice in U. S. mining, and despite precautions is still hazardous. Coal Age described a new method of mining by hydraulic pressure: a hole is bored in a coal seam, a rubber tube is inserted in the bore, and the tube is then powerfully expanded by forcing oil into it, fracturing the coal. Experimental installations broke about 2.500 tons of coal each before failing...
...Supreme Court had one of the merriest times in its history, in 1888, during an infringement suit involving men's underwear. Contested device: a reinforcing patch at the crotch to prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...