Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already this youthful science has given to the world products which a score of years ago would have been considered as belonging only to the field of the dreamer; steel which neither rusts nor corrodes; steel which does not scale at elevated temperatures; case-hardened articles possessing superhardness without introduction of additional carbon; metallic carbides harder than sapphire; light alloys possessing great strength and ductility and resistance to corrosion, making progress in aircraft possible; and magnetic alloys having unusual properties, making possible further development in electrical engineering...
...Graduate School of Engineering has been associated with the development of Metallography from its beginning. Dr. Albert Sauveur, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus, founded the science in America, and is now the dean of American Metallurgists. His treatise on "The Metallography and Heat Treatment of Iron and Steel" is the standard work of reference in its field...
...Greninger is at present studying Martensite, one of the hardening constituents of steel. Although a great deal of work has been done on this problem, very few fundamental facts are as yet known. However, Dr. Greninger is attacking the problem with great success, as the first step in a new extended study of the transformations which occur during the heat treatment of steel...
...responsibilities--to break the severity of depressions in a world that has seen semi-monopoly and corporate organization throttle free competition and the entrpreneur, Unlike Walter Lippmann, Hoover does not advocate that we solve all our problems by waving the common law in the face of the United States Steel Corporation...
Such technical changes, however, are only an eddy in the economic storm now assaulting stock prices. Judged by indices, this storm last week was blowing as hard as ever. Steel production slumped another two points to 27.5% of capacity. Lumber, power and cement output dwindled. Freight cars were at the year's emptiest. Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed...