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Bovine Dentures. False teeth for cows have been developed by Colorado Rancher Rood Menter and Nebraska Dentist Ward Newcomb. Cows often wear out their front teeth by chewing abrasive materials along with grass, thus shortening their lives. The false teeth, consisting of stainless steel caps, were designed to prolong the breeding lives of valuable cows, paying off in extra calves. Cost: about...
...furnace roaring for days and finally set the roof on fire. Now when a fire breaks out in a sculptor's studio, it is more likely to be caused by an unwatched oxyacetylene torch. The material may still be bronze, but there is an added glitter of stainless steel, phosphor or chrome. The great difference is that Cellini produced in bronze a famous Perseus; today's sculptors too often end up with a glittering space divider or macabre wall hanging. Startling and even elegant as such modern objects can be (see color pages), they tend more to snag...
...POLICY is being stiffened by Commerce Department, which approved only $6,626,960 of $21.8 million in applications for Soviet-bloc exports during first quarter this year v. $10,213,000 in last quarter of 1958 out of $16 million in applications. Among items banned: polyethylene, carbon-welded pipeline, stainless steel...
...from 1956 through 1958, and most of the drop (5.1%) was in 1958. Answered Dave McDonald last week: "An enormous error." He calculated the respective declines at only 3% and 1.9%. B.L.S. hastily double-checked, admitted with embarrassment a "clerical error." A bureaucrat had substituted the total of stainless steel ingots shipped (18,443 tons in 1958) for the total of stainless steel ingots produced (895,119 tons). Still refiguring at week's end, the B.L.S. expected that Dave McDonald's answers would prove correct. Moaned one bureau staffer: "Had we goofed on beet sugar instead of steel...
Vinyl Steel. U.S. Steel announced a vinyl-coated sheet steel intended to compete with stainless steel, anodized aluminum, porcelain-enameled steel, etc. in many furniture, appliance and automobile interior uses. The scratch-and stain-resistant vinyl coating withstands up to 30% stretching without separating, makes possible many new shaping operations. Price (on 24-gauge steel...