Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as the station was finished, the Pennsylvania Railroad began to tinker with Architect Charles McKim 's open spaciousness. Information desks were placed in the middle of the huge halls. Eventually, to get more revenue for the railroad, advertising signs with blinking lights were hung from the walls, stainless steel booths and shops appeared, new cars were spotlighted on revolving turn tables. The inside of Penn Station became what Lewis Mumford calls "a vast electronic jukebox...
Single Stitches. Lying on the operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...
...labor negotiations, the demand for steel since the contract settlement has softened. In April's first week, production fell from 82.5% of capacity to 81%. And for months the steel companies have found it hard to maintain their old prices on such items as wire products, tubes and stainless steel sheets. Muttered an Inland Steel executive: "This is no kind of market in which to raise prices. We have been selling most steel products below list price as it is. Prices are negotiated...
...Whitfield Ultra-Clean Room looks like a small metal house trailer without wheels. Its floor is metal grating. It is lined with stainless steel, and along one wall the workbench faces a 4-ft. by 10-ft. bank of "absolute filters" that remove all particles above .3 microns from a slow stream of air. Most clean rooms use their filters simply to clean up incoming air. Whitfield's trick is to make the clean air from the filters keep the room clean. It flows at 1 m.p.h. (a very faint breeze) across the workbench and past the people working...
...chose "neutral" furnishings "to let the paintings do the coloring." To create more space, Bunshaft removed a wall separating the entranceway from the dining area. His TV set is placed behind a sliding Dubuffet, and from behind a Miro comes the sound of his hi-fi speaker. By using stainless steel, Formica and marble, and by keeping the place uncluttered, Mrs. Bunshaft cuts cleaning chores to a minimum...