Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple early morning ceremony on the lawn of Harkness Common, 400 entranced nature lovers paid homage to Richard Lippold's stainless steel monument. They sand and recited poetry and made speeches...
They read telegrams from Luther Burbank, General Douglas MacArthur (U.S. Army ret.), ("World Trees never die...") Lippold ("... busy installing plumbing in lounge of Radio City Music Hall...") and Lassie ("Sorry I can't be there to see if stainless steel is really stainless...
...hymns were sombre: "Hail World Tree, so beautiful. All hail, all hail, incomprehensible," or "Hail World Tree, we humbly kneel beneath thy boughs of stainless steel...
...came some long-chain alcohols which long seemed useless, but have now made Du Pont a prime supplier of raw materials for soapless soaps (detergents). In a pilot plant at Wilmington, Du Pont is turning out titanium metal-as light as aluminum, but as strong and corrosion-resistant as stainless steel. Titanium is costly now, but Du Pont remembers that aluminum once cost $12 a pound, thinks titanium has a big future...
With a hefty swipe of a stainless steel shovel, President Benjamin F. Fairless started work last week on U.S. Steel Corp.'s new $400 million plant near Morris ville, Pa. The "Fairless Works" will pour 1,800,000 tons of steel a year, add about 5% to Big Steel's capacity. But the Morrisville plant was just the start of a rush; Jones & Laughlin, Armco Steel and Bethlehem were also hustling to multiply their capacity, along with a swarm of hastily formed new steel companies...