Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur scientist, provided $75,000 in 1932. The Mond Laboratory, which has vibration-damping walls and sleek steel and scarlet furniture in the director's offices, has attained the creditable mark of .02° C. above Absolute Zero...
When the steel industry announced 5~7% price cuts on most of its important products last June, ingot production stood at 28% of capacity. Since then it has increased steadily, reached 47.3%, highest it has been since last October. Whereas the industry could formerly break even at 45% with the old prices, it must now, however, produce at about 55 or 60% to stay out of the red. In an attempt to reach the break-even mark. U. S. Steel Corp. last week suddenly slashed steel rail prices for 1938's fourth quarter $2.50 per ton, bringing them into...
...60th birthday, Upton Sinclair published his 60th book (Little Steel), wryly declared: "If I were asked to name the one definite thing I have accomplished in my public career I believe it would be that I got an exercise courtyard in the State prison* of Delaware...
Films scheduled to be shown are 'Steel--Man's Servant," "Norris Dam and TVA Work," and "Grand Coulee...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...