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Priority on Ingenuity. Appointed technical director of the reviving steel mill was Arthur Tix, 58, an engineer who had been with B.V. since 1922, had a two-year stint as a bricklayer after the war. Tix bought back some of the company's old equipment that had been dismantled and shipped out of the country. He built a modern rolling mill, increased the work force to 16,000, geared production up to 100,000 tons a month. Last year Tix developed a new vacuum process, which takes gaseous impurities out of cast steel, guaranteeing elimination of flaws, cutting production...
...months ago, Tix announced that another new steelmaking process had been developed-"electric-resistance heating," whereby an ingot can be heated to 1,000° C. in 60 seconds. The main advantage: quick, even heating prevents air from damaging surface, speeds up production...
...first Wish is to use the bad boys' office for a gigantic IBM calculator that will dispense the tix, automatically taking into consideration the undergraduate's age, dating status, and eyesight. For rainy games the tix will come inside umbrellas...