Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Triangle. Ultimate core of Polish defense is the triangular Central Region of Industry (C. O. P.) between Cracow on the west, Lwów on the east, Lublin on the north. Into this area, guarded by highlands, served by two rivers, Poland two years ago moved her vital steel and munitions works, built power plants, at a cost...
London has been divided into ten medical zones, each containing 20 first-aid stations and one large central hospital. As soon as a citizen is felled by steel scraps or toppling masonry, he will be carried to the nearest first-aid station, or picked up by one of the numerous trucks ("mobile units"), which, manned by doctors, will cruise around stricken areas. Smaller first-aid stations are set up in public laundries, baths, and in most public buildings. Almost all stations are equipped with shower baths to "decontaminate" victims of poison...
...lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard, tough alloy. Nickel with only 2% of beryllium in it has a tensile strength of 260,000 pounds per square inch, as against 90,000 for stainless steel. Moreover, this nickel-beryllium alloy maintains high tensile strength and resistance to "fatigue" up to temperatures around 1,000° C. For some time Germany has used beryllium for bushings, valve springs and other airplane and automotive engine parts which must combine strength with heat-resistance...
...comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...
...blowing a gale last week off Brazil's coast. Rain speared down in steel-grey phalanxes. Big, angry combers blew their tops. Battling pluckily through the maelstrom panted the little (248-ton, 36-meter) coastal steamer Itacare. She was out of Sao Salvador on her regular haul to Ilhéos, Bahia. She carried 47 passengers, a crew of 19, was heavily cargoed. Skilfully had young, but seasoned Captain Carlos Oliveira skippered her to within hailing distance of Ilhéos. Another 300 yards would find her in safe harbor...