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Battling back against market inroads by aluminum, plastics and concrete, steelmen are also pushing thinner but stronger wire cable, lighter structural girders, even tinless cans coated with resins. Having upped its research staff from 274 to 700 persons, Bethlehem Steel in the last year has brought out a corrosion-resistant sheet steel cheaper than some alloys, devised a plastic coating to protect suspension-bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel...
Because the Loeb demands far more technical skill than, say, Agassiz, the problem of resources has become more acute since it was built. More technical ability than ever is needed, and what little there is is spread thinner than ever among a number of shows. But at least among the technical crews there is an informal process of education going on. Today's nail-pounder becomes tomorrow's technical director when he assimilates the jobs expected of him; expertise is not so easily passed along among actors and directors. Student directors do what they can to train their actors...
...other had a lighter complexion and curly, light brown hair. He was about G'1" and 185 lbs, and thinner than his accomplice. He also wore a zipper jacket...
...abscesses, the doctors found, varied greatly in size, but as they grew their diseased walls became thinner and weaker. In 39 of the 40 cases studied, the abscess eventually burst. Its contents spilled into the blood flowing through the artery, and some blood flowed back into the abscess cavity...
What has matured in Bill Maitland is not himself but his fears, guilts and anxieties. His skin has become thinner, not thicker, and he flares up with the irascible sensitivity of thwarted desires, blighted hopes. He must flog a body that is losing its resilience, and he smells death's bad breath at dawn. He envies the young for being young and for possessing the integrity that has eroded in him, the appetite for life that has cloyed on his palate, and the courage that has been drowned. Locked in hell's isolation ward of self, he claws...