Word: tinsmiths
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Eastern Locarno. Louis Barthou was born the son of a poor tinsmith. His family scrimped to pay for the education that turned him out a brilliant lawyer. All his life he has been a charmer, naturally eloquent, instinctively elegant, yet with plenty of brain power and force. His rise in the Chamber and through the cabinets of men now mostly forgotten was meteoric. In the year before the War he formed his first Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder...
...evolved. The "Stable-Arc" welders used by the Morgan Co. were built by the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland and mounted on hand trucks. The process: a high frequency arc up to 300 volts is applied to a bar of steel corresponding to a bar of tinsmith's solder, which is pressed along the crevice between two surfaces that are to be joined. The bar is melted, as are both the girder surfaces along the line of the joint, and the molten strip thus formed fuses instantly to a connection of solid metal...