Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered that all columbium stainless steel, a tough alloy, be channeled into defense orders. Columbium* alloys are needed for jet engines...
Work on the center is almost completed, but still to be installed is a 27-foot stainless steel pylon which will be in the sunken outdoor courtyard...
...thought about its dilemma on various levels. Some architects in Boston conjured up a design for a circular house (flat surfaces are vulnerable to shock waves), built of concrete, with double-thick windows and stainless steel doors. Washington realtors advertised houses and lots "beyond the radiation zone." Worried people in Atlanta inquired about insurance policies against atomic-bomb damage...
When the depression flattened the auto business, Budd's loss snowballed to $1,785,000. To keep his shopmen busy, Budd began building lightweight railroad passenger cars, using the company's patented "Shotweld" process for joining stainless steel sheets. Roads bought the cars eagerly, but Edward Budd spent money hand over fist experimenting on such products as stainless steel masts for ships...
...Long Shots. Budd Sr. died in 1946 and Edward Jr., who had grown up in the company as tool & die maker, factory foreman and general manager, took over as president. He cut out the long-shot experimenting on such things as a stainless steel amphibious plane, and concentrated on railroad and auto equipment. Budd became the world's biggest independent producer of auto body parts, began paying its first regular dividends in 16 years...