Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead at Kannack had been wounded earlier, probably during U.S. jet strikes on Viet Cong positions along Route 19 last month. Some had been nipped by the ''Lazy Dog," a new U.S. anti-personnel bomb that explodes 30 yds. above the ground, spewing tiny fléchettes (steel darts) over a block-square area. Among the dead was a young North Vietnamese lieutenant named Ngo. In his diary, he told of the arduous trip down the long Ho Chi Minh trail that began last November. It ended last week on the barbed wire before Kannack. "My life...
Ever since Harold Wilson squeaked into power five months ago, he has had his hands full trying to stay in power with his five-vote parliamentary majority. Postponed were the heady socialist dreams of renationalizing the steel industry, state purchase of urban land, and a first hundred days' whirlwind assault on modernizing Britain. Fact is that Wilson has had nowhere to go but straight down the middle, hoping to keep everybody happy and himself employed...
...motor nearly this big had ever been fired before, but the fuel burned so evenly, and its outside layers were such a serviceable insulator, that all parts of the steel casing remained at air temperature. The nozzle was meant to erode slightly as the corrosive exhaust gases raced out at supersonic speed. But after its throat cooled, the big nozzle looked almost new; about half an inch had been tooled smoothly away as if by a delicate grinding machine. If X rays show no internal damage, the nozzle can be used again...
...tooled totems, such as Artificial Sun, which are unthreatening icons to a world that accepts machine culture willingly. Caro, a Cambridge engineering graduate, worked with Moore for two years until "I'd come to feel that bronze was using me." So he began welding elegant elongated girderwork in steel instead of making "people substitutes" in bronze...
...ventured into steelmaking in 1840, expanded into railway rails and armor plate. In a dispute with his directors, Sir John resigned in 1871, later died in poverty. The company grew on through wars and depression, hardly paused in the late 1940s, when the Labor government nationalized its coal and steel subsidiaries. It Used a $15 million compensation to modernize plants and acquire machine-tool companies. When the Tories offered back the denationalized mills in 1953, John Brown was doing so well that it turned them down...