Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Electronic Sterilizer. A portable water sterilizer that kills bacteria by means of ultraviolet lamps inside a stainless steel cylinder was put on sale by Los Angeles Aquafine Corp. The 133-lb. unit can handle 7,000 gallons an hour. Price: household model, $140; industrial model...
Exploding Alarm. A fire alarm that explodes with two bulletlike reports 30 seconds apart at a temperature of 400° F. will be made by Southland Industries, Inc., Chattanooga. The alarm, consisting of two cylinders of gas in a six-inch length of stainless steel pipe, can be placed anywhere in a home. Probable price...
Other eye-catchers: stainless-steel flatware, handles merging smoothly into tines and blades ($1.40 a fork); a Danish salad fork and spoon set of black, polished horn ($5); a pair of handwoven, Japanese bamboo scoops, for crackers or nuts ($1) ; a green-and-red curtain fabric with a stained-glass window design ($9 a yd.); a handy, steel portable fireplace...
...library. In it, he de fended the philosophy as well as the operating efficiency of U.S. capitalism. But he also lamented that most businessmen are so preoccupied with production schedules that they leave the intellectual market to their collectivist enemies. Said Randall: "With brick and mortar and stainless steel we are the greatest builders the world has ever seen, but our daring and confidence seem to leave us when we walk out of the plant into the realm of ideas...
...enlarging its horizons: jet rotor blades of exceptional hardness and heat resistance are now being made at of powdered titanium carbide and a metallic binder fused under tremendous heat and pressure. The big unsolved problem is cost: an incredible $30,000 per ton v. $780 to $1,020 for stainless steel. But as Wilson's program expands production, nobody doubts that U.S. ingenuity and research will whittle down the cost, just as magnesium's cost has been whittled from $5 in 1915 to 27? a pound in 1953. In that prospect glows the promise of a great...