Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis at Work. OWI's front man, still solid and sensible, has kept his old habit and attitudes. He had trouble getting used to a secretary, often typed out his own letters in the uneven, x'ed out style that is the mark of a working newsman. One night an OWI underling, faced with an emergency call for an advance copy of a Davis speech, wandered through the dark, empty hallways into the executive offices, found a tired man in shirt sleeves picking at a typewriter with two fingers. It was Davis at work. The underling asked...
Gears, high-accuracy steel parts which must take heavy punishment, are traditionally made by cutting the shape from solid metal. It is slow, painstaking work. Last week Timken-Detroit Axle Co. an nounced they had found a new way to make gears...
They had trouble. Under the necessary 3,000-ton impact, dies broke or spread, forgings cracked. If both the die and the forging stood up, they could expect to run off only about ten gears before the die was worn out. Then they thought of burying the die in solid steel so that it could not stretch, of doing the job in five successive squeezes instead of a single bump...
That ended that. The stunned audience recovered in time to applaud. A solid, mild-mannered, aging gentleman in the rear of the basement rose and bowed. It was the first bow Julius Klorfein had ever taken...
...years as editor-owner of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette he had been more widely quoted, perhaps, than any other U.S. editor. Balloon-pricker, dauber of stuffed shirts, kindly philosopher, booster of the good, of Kansas, of Kansans, and of the Republican Party, Will White had been a solid force in the U.S. on the side of good will...