Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resistance welding in its several forms, like arc welding, has made notable contributions to defense production. Commonest form is spot welding: two pieces of thin metal are fused together by the heat generated, due to their electrical resistance when an electric current passes through them. Unlike arc welding, melting of the current-feeding electrode is avoided by: 1) making the electrode partly of copper, whose resistance is very low; 2) mixing the copper, through powder-metal techniques (TIME, Sept. 29), with compounds whose melting point is far higher than steel's; 3) cooling the electrode with water...
...Aluminum weighs one-third as much as steel, but [stainless] steel is more than four times as strong as aluminum in pull and tension. Recent developments in structure mathematics now enable us, even in small planes, to build trusses of thin stainless steel of equal weight to duralumin [an alloy containing 95% aluminum, 4% copper, ½ % manganese and ½ % magnesium while in larger ships there is a greater advantage to the steel construction...
...rest of the play, in the plot sense, merely consists of trying to get the goods on him, and it runs pretty thin at times. What largely keeps it going, in spite of its lightweight sleuthing, is the sharp matching of minds, the ominous atmosphere, a smash psychological finish and a first-rate cast...
...Pacific U.S. ships form a long thin supply line stretching from Panama to the Straits of Malacca and the Java Sea; to the ports of the Dutch Indies, Singapore, Penang; to the Indian Ocean and along Africa's coast. Homeward bound most of these ships bring the U.S. vital Far Eastern cargoes. Outward bound many of them have been carrying supplies to China, Russia and the British in the Middle East...
Among the avantgardistes who ferment, sometimes germinally, at the thin edge of commercial publishing, the year's most notable were Henry Miller and Kenneth Patchen. Miller continued with Michael Fraenkel his extraordinary correspondence about Hamlet ($3) and published The Colossus of Maroussi ($3.50), a freewheeling book on Greece. Patchen's privately printed The Journal of Albion Moonlight ($5) was a nightmarish image of the state of the human soul in the year...