Word: thermit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...
...about 2,000,000 tons of tin cans discarded annually in the U.S., of which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...