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...Philadelphia, for Budd Manufacturing Co.—biggest U.S. builder of stainless-steel trains—the Government began to run up a vast plant which by next spring will be turning out all-steel air freighters, big-bellied and wide-hatched to carry troops, tanks, guns to the war's four quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stainless-Steel Airplanes | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Stainless steel can be fabricated faster and cheaper because, unlike aluminum, it can easily be spot-welded. A thousand steel spot welds cost less than 10?. A like number of aluminum rivets may cost $30.* And Union Carbide & Carbon's engineers estimated last week that stainless-steel wings can sometimes be built four times as fast as aluminum wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stainless-Steel Airplanes | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...unlikely that stainless-steel planes will supersede aluminum planes during this war. But if Budd's all-steel transports are a wartime success, the whole peacetime future of aviation may be changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stainless-Steel Airplanes | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Some other leading industrial designers noted for work on U.S. railroads: Henry Dreyfuss, who designs for the New York Central; Walter Dorwin Teague, who has done de luxe coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Paul Cret, who designs interiors for stainless-steel trains of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Stations | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Vermont's mountain winds were harnessed last week to generate electricity for its homes and factories. Slowly, like the movements of an awakening giant, two stainless-steel vanes-the size and shape of a bomber's wings-began to rotate on their 100-ft. tower atop bleak Grandpa's Knob (2,000 ft.) near Rutland. Soon the 75-ton rotating unit will begin generating 1,350 horsepower or 1,000 kilowatts-enough electricity to light 2,000 homes. Wholly automatic, with its performance recorded by frequent photographs of its dial board, it will produce current about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Harnessing the Wind | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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