Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test National Research's revolutionary method of refining titanium. The method will be the first practical non-Kroll* process: by bypassing the rough, sponge stage now necessary in titanium refining, National Research expects to turn out highly purified metal crystals that can then be melted down into solid metal. If the idea pans out it should cut the cost of titanium (now $5 a lb.) enough so that it will find a vast number of new uses...
...Goodyear's new plant superintendent, he was just out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first real scientist on the young company's staff. He also had a penchant both for production and for trying unexplored fields. In those days U.S. tiremakers produced solid, iron-hard rings of rubber. Litchfield soon learned a better way. In 1902 he took Goodyear's tires to a reliability test in the British Isles, paying his own way across on a cattle boat. "We finished last," recalls...
Republicans did amazingly well in the Solid South. They held on to their only seat in North Carolina, retained two of their three places in Virginia, and upset Democrats in Texas and Florida. For the region as a whole, therefore, the G.O.P. showed a net gain of one seat...
Despite such solid Crimson performance, three Brown backs were the individual standouts. Halfback Ev Pearson broke through the varsity line on the second play of the game, and sprinted 74 yards before he was caught on the Crimson 19 by Cochran. Pearson, though, averaged 17.5 for the game, which topped even the performance of fellow back Dave Zucconi, who carried seven times for 74 yards and a 10.5 average...
...most reliable lineman that Kelley has is a solid 200-pound center from Yonkers, N.Y., Mike Reilly. Next to Reilly, Kelley has a pair of senior guards, Bill Harris from Tarentum, Pa., and reconverted tackle Bill Klaess from Rockville Center, N.Y. Both boys weigh 195 pounds...