Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
...took up his entire studio from floor to roof. Shipped to Boston in nine pieces, Noguchi's model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster model, ten tons of molten stainless steel (temperature 3,000° F.) were poured. When the steel had cooled, four hundred gallons of ammonia and nitric acid...
Tractor-trailers do almost 100% of all U. S. inter-city highway hauling today. A few months ago the Fruehauf brothers got the job of national distributor for the stainless steel trailers of Budd Manufacturing Co., gave an initial order for 10,000 stainless steel semitrailer body sets. On the market and doing nicely is Fruehauf's new light-weight Aerovan (of aluminum alloy) which, carrying a ten-ton payload, weighs three-quarters of a ton less than Fruehauf's equivalent steel model of last year. One growing reason for reducing trailer weights: many a local highway regulation...
...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...
This sensible thesis is given by Adler with almost stainless clarity and with only an occasional glitter of that acerbity by which dull students at Chicago remember him. Adler admits that he has an ulterior motive: to appeal over the heads of conventional and progressive educators to the great reading public, to, show them what education might be and" is not. Putting first things first, competence in reading is a prerequisite to understanding nine-tenths of what men have known...