Word: stainless-steel
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...sprays brackish water on a part of Welfare Island where a park and plantings are planned. But Delacorte, at 76, is not discouraged. He still finds it worthwhile for men of means to "give things of beauty" to the city. He has offered to build a 125-ft. stainless-steel obelisk in front of New York's Hunter College...
Rotating Vats. The crucible of the furnace is located inside a smaller f-shaped building near the base of the big mirror. It is set behind large stainless-steel doors at the focal point of the parabola-where the sun's scorching rays are concentrated into a blazing circle only twelve inches wide. Target material, hoisted into place by a ten-ton lift, is placed into an inclined trough-as the target melts, it runs off into catch pans. Another, more sophisticated technique is to load the material into two aluminum vats whose outer walls are water-cooled...
When she first streaked across the plains 21 years ago, the California Zephyr was a gleaming wonder-on-wheels. The first luxury Vista-Dome streamliner to run between Chicago and San Francisco, the stainless-steel train topped 90 m.p.h. on the straightaway, dazzling onlookers at every wayside crossing. Last week the Cal Zephyr, rattling from disrepair and more than 6,000,000 miles of wear, made its through-run for the last time. Latest victim of rising costs, declining patronage and the reluctance of railroads to promote passenger service, the train was, as one member of the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...International Nickel Co., the world's largest producer, followed an expensive settlement of a 128-day strike at its Ontario mines by announcing a 24% price increase. The move is bound to have major effects in the U.S. Stainless-steel producers, who use 37% of all nickel, are expected to increase prices shortly, for the third time since January. From nickel-plated auto bumpers to jet engines, many products are sure to cost more...
...scramble for nickel, some of them patronizing a black market and paying as much as $9 a pound. Small businessmen have taken the hardest beating; they did not have the capital to lay in large supplies before the strike. Eventually, consumers will have to pay more for carving knives, stainless-steel golf clubs, snowmobiles, faucet handles and other nickel-bearing products...