Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
...year it had net sales of $13,000,000, greatest in its 40-year history. With negligible facilities for producing flat-rolled steel, Ludlum sells about 50% of its output (wire, bars, etc.) to the automobile industry, the rest to manufacturers of machine tools, oil refining and aircraft equipment, stainless steel building products. Last year the company considered raising money to expand; but the capital market was so stagnant that directors, fearing the plan might miscarry, called...
...wing 250 ft. long and triple fuselage accommodating 120 passengers, crew of 16, a dining room for 50, observation deck, cocktail bar, promenade, 70 toilets and a lifeboat. Pontoons serve also as shock absorbers, retract in flight into the hulls of the two main fuselages. The whole ship in stainless steel, by collaboration with Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.. costs an unheard...
There still remain forty metal groups whose alloy characteristics have yet to be studied, and whose possible industrial application is still in its infancy. Their development may mean as much to industry as the relatively recent development of such alloys as stainless steel, or tungsten carbide used in high speed machinery...
...Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) in the U. S. Labor was WPA. The sculptor, who claimed to be the first to use stainless steel as a sculptural medium, was Beniamino Bufano, tough...